Re: Coelurosauria/Maniraptoriformes

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/29/99 9:50:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tholtz@geol.umd.edu writes:

> That is because there isn't a universally accepted answer yet.  Some of
>  these taxa have only been run in the not-yet-printed Gaia paper of mine;
>  others have yielded more ambiguous answers (in part because the fragmentary
>  or otherwise less-than-well-known anatomy leaves a lot of "?"s in the data
>  matrix, in part because they can comfortably fit inside or outside
>  Maniraptoriformes.

Right.  Oh, well.  I'm working on compiling a (reasonably) complete 
classification of the dinosaurs (if nothing else, to help keep them straight 
in my own head!).

For now, at least, these guys are all going in under "basal coelurosaurs".

Thanks,
Nick P.