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RE: Placement of Segnosauria

To: "Dinonet" <dinosaur@usc.edu>, "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Subject: RE: Placement of Segnosauria
From: "Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:08:22 -0700
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>
>   How? What is your support for a hypothesis that states that known
> segnosaur material is non-theropodan?
>
> <The illustration in the original paper doesn't convince me. I think
> it's too ambiguous.>
>
>   About what?

About whether mt I contacted the tarsus or not. I'll look at the figure once
more.<<
IMHO it would have to. It's a weight-bearing element and the tarsus would
act as a 'stop'. I'm sure there was some (or as in reptiles, a lot) of
cartilage.


Tracy

References:
- Re: Placement of Segnosauria
  - From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>

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