RE: noasaurids strikes back

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Sebastian Apesteguia" <ninjasarg@hotmail.com>

> However, noasaurids differ from velocisaurids in having a specialized 
> raptorial ungueal structure.

Has this been shown to be true yet?  I understand there has recently been 
some doubt circulating about whether or not Noasaurus did, in fact, have a 
"raptorial" claw.  Where did this doubt come from?  What's the reasoning 
behind it?  I know Tracy Ford made a reconstruction in which the supposed 
sickle claw is placed on the hand...
Curiously,

Jordan Mallon

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Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

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