Re: Additional material on the Sinornthosaurus venom report

[Denver Fowler <df9465@yahoo.co.uk>]

there's a slightly better image of the teeth here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091221212630.htm

Mmm... almost certainly hanging out of their sockets. Is this another case of 
PNAS not having reviewed papers? It's not at all unusual to find depressed 
areas such as this in theropod tooth roots.

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Denver Fowler
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----- Original Message ----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>
To: archosauromorph2@hotmail.com; dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Tue, 22 December, 2009 16:33:15
Subject: RE: Additional material on the Sinornthosaurus venom report

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Brad McFeeters
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:32 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: Additional material on the Sinornthosaurus venom report
> 
> 
> On the subject of "groovy" teeth, *Orkoraptor* is partly 
> diagnosed by having grooves and furrows on its teeth.  What 
> was their most likely function?  

This assumes that these are functional rather than simply the consequences
of tooth development.

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