Re: Scipionyx question

[Gautam Majumdar <gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk>]

Sam Girouard <sampgir@premier1.net> wrote
>       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.

Yes. Also in :
 
Leonardi G, Avanzini M, Dinosauri in Italia, Le Scienze (Quaderni) 1994, 76:
69-81.

Gautam Majumdar                 gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk