Re: Microvenator species??????

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 07:31 PM 7/6/99 +0200, you wrote:
>A good 4 july at all the American Paleontologist and other amateur of
>Dinosaurs.
>Last night in the "Dinosauria online" I have read in the "Coelurosauria
>Cladogram" that the basal Oviraptorosauria's form Microvenator is based not
>only to the type specimen M. celer but to a second species M. chagyabi, well

Found on a Tracy Ford posting to the dinosaur list (on the Dinosaur Mailing
list archives: url for this one is:
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1999Mar/msg00691.html)

Microvenator chagyaensis (faunal list in ZHANG & LI, 1997)

Zhang, Shunxin and Li Fenglin, 1997. Mesozoic Dinosaur Localities in
China and Their Stratigraphy. In: Dinofest International, Proceedings of
a Symposium sponsered by Arizona State University. A Publication of The
Academy of Natural Sciences, edited by Donald L. Wolberg, Edmund Sump,
and Gary D. Rosenberg: 265-273.

Since all that has appeared so far is a name in a faunal list, we have no
real way to evaluate if it is a real taxon or not.

>In the
>Makovicki's paper there are some referred material (YPM 5366) that includes
>a Theropoda teeth, perhaps is these material which based the second species?

No, most of the theropod teeth found with the type of _Micro._ are
_Deinonychus_ teeth.

                        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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