Talk:Nothronychus

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'Toothless beak' and 'small mouth with leaf shaped teeth' ??? As far as I know, no theropods ever developed into fully fledged veggies. I'm not an expert so have not edited the text, but it needs looking at. 86.8.136.217 22:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually (I don't have the refs on-hand, but it's discussed in the second edition of The Dinosauria), paleontologists are pretty comfortable with the idea of therizinosaurs as herbivores. J. Spencer 22:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If someone could post or point to an image of the actual remains that may help. A google image search finds two rather different interpretations...86.8.136.217 22:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Here's close cousin Erlikosaurus J. Spencer 23:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Head and neck of N. graffami ?[edit]

The caption of the image in the taxobox was saying that it was a cast of the skull and neck of N. graffami. The animal is known from a nearly complete postcranial skeleton, missing the skull and most of the neck, so it was kind of odd to display the cast of the only substantially missing parts. ArthurWeasley (talk) 20:25, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The skull is unknown for both species of Nothronychus... I feel like we've had this conversation before, but should we be displaying skeletal casts that show predominantly speculative reconstructions rather than actual material based on fossils? (The mount is N. graffami, btw, as detailed in the Gillette 2007 pdf ref. The MNA specimen is graffami, the New Mexico specimen is mckinleyi). Dinoguy2 (talk) 17:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the point is that the reconstruction could be of either species as the skull is unknown for both of them as you mentioned. Showing the entire mount would be fine, but showing a picture of the reconstruction focused only on the parts which are actually missing from the fossils is really misleading in my opinion. I would simply removed that picture and wait for a better one. ArthurWeasley (talk) 17:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, sounds good to me. The pic almost looks like it was taken before the mount was officially on display, it appears to be peeking over some kind of barrier... Dinoguy2 (talk) 18:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture section + picture[edit]

I noticed that there's no popular culture section in this article. Isn't that strange, considering Nothronychus had such a memorable role in When Dinosaurs Roamed America?

Speaking of that documentary, I found a good rendering of the CG creature [here] on the Dinosaur Wiki. Since I wasn't sure about whether it had a fair use policy on it, I didn't add it. Possibly someone will take a look at it and discuss whether to include it or not. Crimsonraptor (talk) 01:02, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's from the documentary, so it's copyrighted. FunkMonk (talk) 01:05, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Are there any external sources discussing the impact WDRA had on how people think of or study Nothronychus? MMartyniuk (talk) 02:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well! Apparently the article does have a section on its appearance in WDRA...just in Italian. Thankfully I've got a translator on my laptop, so as soon as I can have some time free on my hands I'll look at it again. As for sources, that's a good idea, I'll check those out and see if there's a reliable source. Crimsonraptor (talk) 14:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New major paper[edit]

This actually isn't that recent a paper, but it is from this year.

Hedrick BP, Zanno LE, Wolfe DG, Dodson P (2015) The Slothful Claw: Osteology and Taphonomy of Nothronychus mckinleyi and N. graffami (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and Anatomical Considerations for Derived Therizinosaurids. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129449. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129449 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0129449

-- IJReid discuss 00:07, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's a nice free diagram in it showing known remains, but I've been hesitant to upload it since it says it's based on a diagram in another, non-free paper... I wonder how alike they are, if the free one is very different, it might not be a problem to use it here... FunkMonk (talk) 21:07, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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