Re: GIVING CERATOSAURS THE BOOT

[pharrinj@PLU.edu]

On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, th81 wrote:

> >A pubic foot in _Ceratosaurus nasicornis_ was reported as an impression in 
> >the
> >sediment surrounding the bone in the original description. Several skeletal
> >reconstructions accordingly give _Ceratosaurus_ a boot, therefore. 
> 
> More recent (and, sadly, unpublished) specimens of Ceratosaurus show that
> there is only a small, Carnotaurus-like boot on the pubis.

A pubic foot like that of _Carnotaurus_?  Quelle surprise!

> >What are the chances that the Ceratosauria is paraphyletic. I know that, as 
> >an
> out-group to the Tetanurae, it's well supported in several recent
> phylogenies, but
> >Bakker, Britt and others see a grading between ceratosaurids and
> megalosaurids.
> 
> Actually, the chances aren't too bad.  I would have know problem if
> Neoceratosauria were found to be closer to Tetanurae than to Coelophysoidea.

Whoa, hold on.  You just sent me a post saying that the Coelophysidae 
were firmly within the Ceratosauria.  The above 
((Tetanurae+Neoceratosauria) + Coelophysoidea) is EXACTLY what I meant to 
suggest.

> 
> 
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Dept. of Geology
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD  20742
> Email:Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
> Fax: 301-314-9661
> Phone:301-405-4084
>

    Nick Pharris
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