Re: A Sprawling finish, with Garden Park and a new Museum

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

Kris Kripchak (MariusRomanus@aol.com) wrote:

<I definitely took into account fig. 9 (not fig. 8, but close enough).
There is a region that had me curious a long time ago, located just above
the pubic peduncle and just behind the antiliac shelf. The region seems to
be a prominent rim which is part of the cranial aspect of the acetabulum.
In effect, it would prevent the femur from doing what I proposed. Support
for this conclusion is also found by the fact that one can see the rim
from the side in later dromaeosaurs.>

  It was at this point that it should occur to someone that with all the
cracks and matrix-filled areas: "What exactly are we supposed to be able
to tell about the animal in the flattened, crushed, and cracked fossil?"
Especially when this is based off of a high-contrast photo of specimens
(the CAGS ones being refered to) that are rife with cracks and
matrix-filled areas.

  Cheers,

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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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