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Re: New alvarezsaurid

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Subject: Re: New alvarezsaurid
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:01:53 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Jaime Headden wrote:

(Re: the new alvarezsaurid)
> (*Suvuuia*)
(Or _Shuvuuia_ or _Shuuvuia_?)

> Oh well, it looks like another nail in BCF's coffin.

I don't see how that's so... BCF says that the lineage from basal
dinosaurs to modern birds were small, arboreal/scansorial creatures that
spit off larger terrestrial lineages, right? Alvarezsaurids would just be
another one of these lineages.

--T. Mike Keesey
tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu
DINOSAUR WEB PAGES -- http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~tkeese1/dinosaur/index.htm

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- Re: New alvarezsaurid
  - From: "Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>

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