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Re: E & P of Pterosaurs - Notes 3

To: david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: E & P of Pterosaurs - Notes 3
From: "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:07:49 -0800
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david peters wrote:
> 
>  Chris Bennett presents the first reconstructions of the pectoral musculature 
> of .... [Anhanguera].... Chris argues that no bird-like humeral elevator 
> originating from the coracoid -- nor any pulley-like arrangement -- is 
> apparent, contradicting earlier hypotheses by Furbinger (1900) and Padian 
> (1983), and he is convincing.

Indeed he is.  The same is true of Quetzalcoatlus.  The supracoracoideus
does not elevate the wing.  It appears to me that it pitches the wing.

References:
- E & P of Pterosaurs - Notes 3
  - From: david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>

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