I guess so. Even then, aren´t there ichnites from Spain from the same time period that suggest a hallux touching the ground?
I'm guessing that they may belong to another genus.
Sure. That´s possible.
But that does remove reasons for keeping Bary´s hallux short.
IMO there are more reason to give it a large ground-touching hallux.
But that does remove reasons for keeping Bary´s hallux short.
IMO there are more reason to give it a large ground-touching hallux.
Also, the FASC specimen doesn't really establish this either - it only has a complete MT I, and a partial MT II - without knowing the length of the rest of the foot it's hard to know exactly how close of contact the first digit had with the ground (I'm not saying their reconstruction here is wrong, just that it's not a slam dunk as is sometimes implied).
You´re right. It´s far from established, and not certain.