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RE: T rex bites your bum
> From: John Hunt [mailto:john.bass@ntlworld.com]
>
> Sorry Thomas!
>
> Perhaps I should have qualified it like: I have noticed that the long
> metatarsals of tyrannosaurs are often overlooked in arguments concerning
> limb proportions on popular TV shows by proponents of the view that T. rex
> was a strolling obligate scavenger.
>
> Is that better?
Yes, that's a lot better.
And has an easy answer: Horner's more popular than me when it comes to TV
producers... :-C
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland College Park Scholars
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. [mailto:tholtz@geol.umd.edu]
> Sent: 24 May 2005 14:05
> To: john.bass@ntlworld.com; DragonsClaw@gmx.net; 'DML'
> Subject: RE: T rex bites your bum
>
> > From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> > John Hunt
> >
> > There has been much speculation regarding the speed or otherwise of
> > tyrannosaurs but I have not noticed much research into the locomotive
> > abilities of the potential prey. What were the relative proportions of
> > femur, tibia and metatarsals of hadrosaurs (I have noticed that the long
> > metatarsals of tyrannosaurs are often overlooked in arguments concerning
> > limb proportions)?
>
> [Sputtering out his morning coffee...] OVERLOOKED!?!?!?!?!?
>
> Sorry, sorry, no reason I should take this personally... (arctometatarsus
> function, big morphometrics of theropod limb paper in JVP
> back in the 1990s, papers on theropod predation in the 2000s making just
> this point, talks at DinoFest on just this point, chapter
> in Dinosauria II, freaking KID'S BOOK on the subject, grumble, grumble,
> grumble, grumble, grumble...).
>
> (Yeah, and Eric Snively and Greg Paul need some credit here, too...)
>
> Okay, for the hadrosaurid limb proportions: tibiae scale to femora slightly
> under tyrannosaurids, metatarsals WAY under
> tyrannosaurids.
>
> Further paper on precisely this topic should be coming your way after the T.
> rex symposium this summer.
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
> University of Maryland College Park Scholars
> Mailing Address:
> Building 237, Room 1117
> College Park, MD 20742
>
> http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
> http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
> Phone: 301-405-4084 Email: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
> Fax (Geol): 301-314-9661 Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796
>