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Re: New alvarezsaurid

>All this fuss over a boring old flightless enant.!
>
>Why aren't people more interested in Rahona being the missing link 
between
>Archy and Velociraptor?
>
>JJ
>
>

    Alvarezsaurs show hardly any unifying characters with 
enantiornithines ( reverse scapulacoracoid articulation, etc ). 

"Rahona" is not a link between Archy and dromaeosaurs. Archaeopteryx is 
too specialized and birdlike to be ancestral to dromaeosaurs.

MattTroutman

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