Re: Reflections on Recent "Dromaeosaurs"

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Jaime Headden wrote:

>   Additionally, *Achillobator* has a pelvis that is so
> unlike the maniraptoran trend that it may not even be
> a maniraptoran (for instance, a propubic process and
> proximal obturator process),

This last feature is a very shifty character.  Allosaurids and 
ornitholestids have a proximally-positioned obturator process (they probably 
retain the primitive condition), but so do tyrannosaurids and ornithomimids. 
 I was thinking that the location of the obturator process may be 
size-related.


> >                |  |--*Adasaurus mongoliensis*

I've read that this specimen is "severely pathologic", but does anyone know 
how/why?

> >   Just for fun, the misspelling *Sinornithosaurus
> > milleni* has been officially published in a
> > peer-reviewed article, etc., so qualifies as an
> > official misspelling :) [pg. 10, for those interested].

Could you run this by me again...


Tim
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