Re: Modelling large theropod movement (not AMNH)

[Ottawa Paleontological Society <paleo@ncf.ca>]

Thank you,

The feedback on the models is extremely useful for us as these models were 
developed in a relative vacuum.

I should also clarify that these models are being developed by three other 
people on our team (I'm tasked with paleobotany and ecosystem work - 
subjects I would love to discuss at some point).

Btw. If anyone has comments regarding most likely errors in current 
reconstructions of Camarasaurids and Brachiosaurids, please pass them on! I 
hear work is about to start.

Thank you again,

-Jonas Weselake-George


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: Modelling large theropod movement


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:05 AM
>
> > > Too many illustrations show the leg straight down so that only half the
> > > body (left or right side) is supported by the leg. Guess there must be 
> > > an
> > > antigravity pack on the other side. Watch an ostrich or emu walking for
> > > example.
> >
> > Though... in birds, the hip joints lie far apart, while in 
> > tyrannosauroids they touched the [...] vertebral column, so this effect, 
> > while
> > unavoidable, must have been much smaller in *Tyrannosaurus* than in
> > ostriches or emus.
>
> Then HP John Scanlon sent me a photo of an emu pelvis. It's just as 
> narrow. Emus -- and I think ostriches, too -- are exceptions among birds 
> and therefore fit the example pretty well, it appears.