Re: Zupaysaurus

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Nick Pharris (npharris@umich.edu) wrote:

<_Yangchuanosaurus_ does.  I think _Cryolophosaurus_ has little rims. And
the crest of _Monolophosaurus_ could well represent the fusion of paired 
parasagittal crests.>

  Not to mention *Sinraptor* to an even smaller degree, *Allosaurus*,
*Giganotosaurus*, *Carcharodontosaurus*; the ridges Tim Williams notes in
the foxes *Uro-* and *Otocyon* are formed at the apex of the dorsal and
lateral walls of the nasal/maxilla contact, which according to Paul (1988)
occurs in *Deinonychus* and *Velociraptor* (though Barsbold et al., 1999,
shows that this is not true in GI 100/25, and likely did not exist in *V.
mongoliensis* altogether).

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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