Re: Dromaeosauridae names, please!

["Mickey_Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer@email.msn.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote-


> ?Heptasteornis andrewsi

Not a dromaeosaurid.  Check out
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1999Dec/msg00056.html to find out
why.

> "Ichabodcraniosaurus" (LK Mongolia, only mentioned in _Michael Novacek
> [NovÃÄek?]: Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, Anchor Books 1996_,

This is new to the list, is it not?  George needs to make it Dinosaur Genera
List Corrections #151 or something.

> ?Paronychodon lacustris

Paronychodonts are probably not dromaeosaurids.  They have unserrated teeth
like ornithomimosaurs and I think they lack interdental plates.

> Variraptor mechinorum (often considered as a nomen dubium or nearly so;

I disagree with Buffetaut and Allain that this is a nomen dubium.  There are
autapomorphies, like two pairs of cervical pleurocoels and a huge
deltopectoral crest.

> Unnamed 5: ?fairly complete, 4 m long, EK, Isle of Wight

Is this the new Wealden tyrannosaur-like (= cat-like, ughh...) coelurosaur?
If it is, it's not  dromaeosaurid.

Mickey Mortimer