Re: Longisquama

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Ronald Orenstein wrote:

> Why couldn't unequal limb length be associated with climbing, as it is in 
> tree frogs, instead of bipedality?

Unequal limb length could be associated with *both* climbing and bipedality, 
as _Microraptor_ would seem to indicate.  Arboreal quadruped, terrestrial 
biped.


Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> I've always pictured Longisquama as a kind of small biped, contrary to
> Sharov's original reconstruction. I once even classified it as a basal
> theropod (1991, 1992). It is surely one of what may have been a series  of 
> thousands of species of small, arboreal Triassic archosaurs,

_Longisquama_ is most likely an archosauromorph.




Tim






_________________________________________________________________
Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. 
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail