Metopocetus Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Do you have a coracoid from a bird roughly the size of Pelagornis sp. that you could post a picture of? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 No, I don't . Dare I ask why? Do I need to make a trip down to the museum? Members of that family achieved wing spans of up to 20 feet (over twice that of the (similar but unrelated) White Pelican. I would not expect them to have a particularly similar morphology, but size-wise, the White Pelican's coracoid is +/- 137mm long and rather robust. Pelagornis is described as a dynamic-soarer, and so may have more structural similarities with an albatross; this interpretation would suggest a proportionally shorter coracoid, not much longer than the sternal end is wide. I know this is a whole lot of not-very-useful off-gassing on my part , but it's all I got. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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