RE: noasaurids strikes back

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

Jordan Mallon wrote:

> 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...

I don't know where the _Noasaurus_ claw really belongs, the foot or the 
hand.  But the enlarged ungual of _Megaraptor_ was recently moved from the 
foot to the hand, courtesy of new material.  Long before this, the eponymous 
_Baryonyx_ claw was originally thought to be a foot-claw.

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