RE: Placement of Segnosauria (was Re: Details on Nanshiungosaurus bohlini)

["Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>]

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Timothy Williams
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 11:07 AM
To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at; dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Placement of Segnosauria (was Re: Details on Nanshiungosaurus
bohlini)

David Marjanovic wrote:


>Sad to say, I don't know most of these studies, not even their refs. My
>arguments for putting Segnosauria into Plateosauria (sensu Sereno:
>Massospondylus + Plateosaurus) are:

(a) and (b) refer to the association of the _Beipiaosaurus_ type material.
There's nothing that suggests to me that the material is chimeric.

I disagree. The jaw is way to small to fit an animal with the body size that
the skeleton suggests. The manus and claws is too dromaeosaurid for me.
Tracy