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Chirostenotes (Gilmore,1924)
> C.pergraciles
(Gilmore,1924)
>> Macrophalangia
canadensis (Sternberg,1932)
("slender hand" "narrow-handed (dinosaur)") 2 partially
complete manus. Discovery of un unprepared skeleton in a 60-year old
museum collection has recently revealed that postcranial skeletons
previously identified as Chirostenotes and Macrophalangia
are caennagnathids.
The digital proportions and hand configuration are comparable
to those of Deinonychus
antirrhopus and Velociraptor
mongoliens, hence the suggested family assignment. There is
no evidence that dromaeosaurids were particularly fast as theropods
go. In fact, dromaeosaurids
have shorter and stockier legs than most other theropods of the same
size! Their hindlimbs seem more specialized for power than high
speed. |