RE: T-rex Finger Count?

[Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org]

Smith and  I assumed it was there because it is there in Gorgosaurus.

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D. 
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology 
and Chief Preparator 
Department of Earth Sciences 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Jordan Mallon
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: T-rex Finger Count?
> 
> 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...
> 
> --
> Jordan Mallon
> 
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> Vertebrate Palaeontology & Palaeoecology
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