Re: T-rex Finger Count?

[Jordan Mallon <jordan.mallon@gmail.com>]

On 6/6/05, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@geol.umd.edu> wrote:

>While it is true newly discovered specimens (e.g., Peck's rex)
finally preserve >metacarpal III (already known from other
tyrannosaurids, and inferred by >Carpenter and Smith in their
description of the T. rex forelimb)

I don't have my copy of MVL on hand, so I'll have to ask: Before we
knew of mc III in T. rex, was there any reason to think that this
element was indeed there (e.g. impression left on mt II)?  I ask
because it seems to me a good case could have been made that it wasn't
(not that it matters anymore).
Just letting my mind wander...

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Jordan Mallon

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