Re: New in JVP

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: <bigelowp@juno.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: New in JVP

> One of the bones uncovered in the plaster field jacket brought from 
Jane's
>  discovery site was a 14-inch long, very thin, cervical (neck) vertebra.


>   The cervical vertebra found at the "Jane" site, probably came
>   from an individual azhdarchid pterosaur, with an estimated neck length 
> of 5
>   feet and an estimated wingspan of around 20 feet.

If from an adult Qsp,
a 14 inch CV5 would equate roughly to a 4.35 foot neck and a span of 14.2 
feet, more or less.
a 14 inch CV6 would equate roughly to a 5.04 foot neck and a span of 16.45 
feet more or less.

Note that I didn't round the decimals off.  The precision of the estimate 
wouldn't be 'quite' this good :-)
I haven't seen the 14 inch CV, but the lengths of the Qsp CV4 and CV7 
wouldn't jive with the reported numbers at all, so it likely would have been 
a #5 or #6, if an adult Quetz.