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Skeletal reconstruction of Deltadromeus agilis holotype SGM-Din2.Scale bar is 1m.
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I have a question, why in this reconstruction are only illustrated the fossils illustrated in the Sereno article? And the others who know each other and who were drawn in the diagram do not? By the way, good diagram.
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Known material (=holotype only. assignment of Stromer specimen is questionable) of Deltadromeus are illustrated and briefly described only in Sereno et al. (1996). Sereno illustrates more holotypic material (e.g. fragmentary pelvis, more caudal...), but detailed illustrations (and/or photograph) have not published yet. Thus, we could draw only these material based on published data.
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Wildly intriguing and oddly fitting (anatomy-wise), those absurdly shaped shoulders and the tiny arms don't seem to fit any other group of Theropods, Sereno's skeletal always bothered me in that regard (not his fault, but still)
Would it - however - be likely that Deltadromeus retain the same proportions of its much smaller brethren? Not that you have much else to go by though, so I understand keeping it sort of uniform within the clade.
Either way, very refreshing!
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Nicely done! 2 Questions:
1: How long would Deltadromeus be, using the scale?, and,
2: Will Gualicho/Aoniraptor get a skeletal?
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1. (Possibly) over 7m in this specimen.
2. Coming soon!
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