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Possible Oviraptorid with a killing claw?; Possible Oviraptorid with a killing claw?
Topic Started: Jun 18 2015, 01:47 PM (1,456 Views)
FishFossil
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I recently picked up a rather nicely researched Dinosaur encyclopedia, as it's sometimes nice to look up information when your Internet is down. Inside the book, I came upon a section about the oviraptorid Nomingia. In it, the writer added a short sentence at the end, which stated that "Nomingia may have had a killing claw on the second digit". I find this funny because no foot material has EVER been recovered for Nomingia. Is this even within the realm of possibility? Or is this just daft nonsense? I for one, think it's an interesting idea :D
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Nomingia may not have had deinonychosaur-esque digit II pedal unguals, but it looks as if Wulatelong did, or at least something similar.

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The thing is, although the people who described it clearly noticed the raised digit II ungual (considering how they illustrated it), they never mentioned it.
Edited by Ausar, Nov 16 2015, 11:46 AM.
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Very interesting. You'd think that sort of thing would grab serious attention! Wonder why they decided not to mention it?  :-/
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Perhaps they were too incredulous?
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