Re: T rex bites your bum

[Cliff Green <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>]

>
> And has an easy answer: Horner's more popular than me when it comes to TV
producers... :-C

Dear Tom and List,

    Yes Jack gets more press, but Tom, you're a whole lot prettier. Get a
new agent.

Loves your calender Cliff

> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
> University of Maryland College Park Scholars
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>
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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
> >