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Scipionyx question

        Is the animal now called Scipionyx based on the same specimen from
Benavento that was described by Leonardi and Teruzzi in 1993? In Glut's new
dinosaur encyclopedia, a note of Leonardi and Teruzzi's paper is included
in the section on Velociraptor, and mention is made of a raptorial second
pedal ungual. Could this animal be a dromaeosaurid?

Reference:

Leonardi, Giuseppe, and Teruzzi, Giorgio, 1993. Prima segnalazione di uno
scheletro fossile di dinosaurio (Theropoda, Coelurosauria) in Italy
(Cretacico di Pietraroia, Benavento): Paleocronache, I, pp. 7-14.

(forgive my Italian)

Sam Girouard