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

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

I'll try to get the JVP...

Some (not all) of the oviraptorosaurian material from Gondwana (e. g. the
Santana sacrum) could be alvarezsaurid, I guess.

> >(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
>
> Even allowing for the fact that segnosaurs/therizinosaurs have very small
> heads?  You could be right though.

Let's check that -- soon!

More tomorrow -- it's half past 11 PM here.