Re: Segnosaur material

[forelf@internet19.fr (Francoise Forel)]

> 
> > 
> > CHILANTOSAURUS
> 
> This is no segnosaur.  The holotype of _Chilantaisaurus_  is a very 
> fragmentary skeleton belonging to a large (non-segnosaurian) theropod. 
> Sereno et al.  called it a torvosauroid in the paper on _Afrovenator_. 
> I'm not entirely sure why.  
> 
> (Incidentally, the holotype of _C. tashuikoensis_ includes a large claw
and 
> I've mused if this mega-claw really comes from the foot rather than the
hand. 
> 
> With its slightly proximally attenuated third metatarsal, I've wondered if
> _Chilantaisaurus_ is really a big maniraptoran.  Probably not, but 
> it's worth thinking about.)
> 
> The species you're thinking of is _Chilantaisaurus zheziangensis_ 
> (I've spelled this wrong I'm sure).  There's some confusion about the
holotype
> of this species, which probably partly explains why it is been kept 
> in the genus _Chilantaisaurus_ by some authors and regarded as a
segnosaur 
> by others. 
>

I saw this one under the name of SEGNOSAURUS zheziangensis. I think it
would be better as Therizinosauroidea indeterminate.
 
> Tim Williams
> > 
> 

Felix Landry
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