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Re: SEGNOSAUR 2

Jeffrey Martz wrote:

<If _T.rex_ was the only tyrannosaur known with a skull would you say 
that rostrolaterally facing eyes were a tyrannosaur autopomorphy?>

Not if we had a troodontid skull or some dromaeosaur. It would be 
considered a feature found in a large theropod, possibly a synapomorphy 
[or is that plesiomorphy?]. Found in Maniraptoriform theropods (which it 
is, but not neccesarily all of them, or only them).

Jaime A. Headden

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