Re: Sharovipteryx - delta-winged glider?

[jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

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From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Sharovipteryx - delta-winged glider?


> Jim Cunningham wrote:

> > , and there doesn't seem to be any solid proof that it wasn't capable of 
> > flapping
>
> Deja vu.  I vaguely recall that _Microraptor_ was at the epicenter of a 
> similar argument/discussion.

It's not a discussion or argument, its just a comment....   :-)
> I believe the front half of _Sharovipteryx_ is too 'squished' (and not 
> adequately exposed in the slab) for an accurate restoration of the 
> pectoral girdle and forelimb.

They wouldn't really be relevant anyway.  A close examination of the pelvic 
girdle would be.

> So any flapping would be executed by the hindlimbs...?

Yes.