Re: Dermal coverings

[Raymond Ancog <rayancog@pacific.net.ph>]

Dinogeorge wrote:
>
>Earlier this very evening I had an opportunity to examine casts of a new 
>segnosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. Whew! All I can say is, well, 
>segnosaurs certainly are theropods after all--the slender, boomerang-shaped 
>furcula shows this, as well as some of the other material--and I would now 
>say they're likely even closer to avialan birds than dromaeosaurids are. 
>There's even a chance they're closer to modern birds than Archaeopteryx is 
>(based on the backward pubis, tooth shape in this specimen, and a few other 
>features).

Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas interpreted segnosaurs as an independent
offshoot of the prosauropods. What taxon are you refering to? I'd like to
read any articles on segnosaurs, if anyone knows of any.


Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog
Mines and Geosciences Bureau
Philippines