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RE: Deinocheirus (was Sauropodz r kewl WAS: silly conversation on 2012 US presidential race)
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- From: Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:07:48 +0000
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> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:11:26 +1000
> From: tijawi@gmail.com
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> Subject: Re: Deinocheirus (was Sauropodz r kewl WAS: silly conversation on
> 2012 US presidential race)
>
> David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> > What's more, in segnosaurs generally, unlike in sloths or chalicotheres, the
> > neck is so long that the head is well out of reach of the forelimbs.
>
>
> Yes. Despite the lateral reorientation of the glenoid, used for
> (probably) increased dorsal reach of the forelimbs.
>
>
> In certain ornithomimosaurs, it's been proposed that the forelimbs
> could have been used to hook or grasp branches to help bring them to
> the mouth. The forelimbs of therizinosaurs/segnosaurs might have been
> used in a similar fashion. However, given the long necks of both
> groups, I wonder just how necessary the forelimbs really were during
> browsing.
Therizinosaur forelimbs were heavily muscled, right? Maybe its not so much a
matter of "pull food to mouth" as a matter of "pull branch down enough that
tender leaves are in reach of mouth".