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Re: Placement of Segnosauria

Jaime A. Headden wrote:

> Sacrum from Brazil, Martill and Frey, 1996, has
> anterior sacral pleurocoels, but this is undiagnostic.

Couldn't that be alvarezsaurid?

> Therizinosauroid manal claws from Morocco (Russell,
> 1995, _Comptes Rendus_) are rather quaint...

???

Pete Buchholz wrote:

> Additionally, well preserved therizinosaur hands show well developed semi
> lunate carpals.

But in these, the distal carpals 1 + 2 are never fused, whereas they are in
ALL (neo?)theropods...