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Range of motion of dromeasaur fingers?
Topic Started: Sep 28 2015, 03:27 PM (466 Views)
MithosKuu
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I've been doing some anatomy research for an art project involving dromeasaurs, sources have gone out of their way to point out that the primary feathers on the dromeasaur arm are connected to the second finger of the hand, would that have any effect on its ability to clench its fingers? Did they have the ability to grasp or was their second finger more like a rigid extension of the wrist?
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Jinfengopteryx
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Aspiring paleontologist, science enthusiast and armchair speculative fiction/evolution writer
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"Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Bambiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae)" by Phil Senter is a good source for dromaeosaur limb/finger flexibility. Ursus arctos once posted screenshots from that paper which were quite ubiquitous in 2012 (as many people copied and pasted them), but it looks like the images are not available anymore.
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MithosKuu
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Sounds perfect, I'll dig up a copy, thanks!
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