Re: Tyrannosaurus "Scavenger vs. Predator" debate (joke)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Mickey Mortimer (Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com) wrote:

<So as you can see, it's the large occipital condyle that's causing
Itemirus to clade with non-tyrannosauroids.  Size-related perhaps?>

  Actually, according to what you presented, it seems to be the relative
size of the foramen magnum, rather than the condyle, in which case the
condyles otherwise do not resemble those in tyrannosaurs. Note, the
ventral basisphenoid recess is either not coded for, absent from the
analysis, or ignored, not sure, but that should also link *Itemirus* with
tyrannosaurids, as well.


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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