Re: achillobator

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

ville sinkkonen wrote:
> this was write in old dinosauricon page.
>
> "A large deinonychosaur with unusual pelvic features."
>
> Why the pelvic features are unusual?

For starters, it's not opisthopubic (pubis directed posteroventrally), 
instead it's mesopubic (pubis directed roughly "ventro-vertically", is there 
another word for this?), the pubic boot is enlarged anteriorly, the 
obturator process is more proximally positioned relative to other 
dromaeosaurids, and the ilium is more squared-shaped than parallelogram 
shaped.

> does any one have the achillobator paper in pdf?
>
> if you do, could you send it for me.

If it was available in PDF, it's not very widely distributed. I have a 
feeling it's only available in hardcopy... now if someone might take the 
initiative to scan in those pages and make a PDF, we'd have something there 
wouldn't we?


nick gardner
 = paleoartist
 = paleogeek

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