Re: late night thoughts: misunderstand what?

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

> >
> > That's an interesting perspective.  What features
> of allosauroids make
> > them more suited for wound-and-retreat than
> tyrannosaurs?
> 
> Their teeth are cutting rather than crunching, and
> their arms, while longer, 
> were weaker, indicating they didn't "bite-and-hold".

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Do you have the reference for that one? I know of the
_T.rex_ arm musculature study, but I don't remember
one being done on Allosaurids. It sounds interesting.

Jason


"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern [reptile] types 
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


       
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