Megalancosaurus

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

    Does Renesto place Megalancosaurus within prolacertiforms, close to 
them, or closer to some other group?
    If I recall correctly, someone's cladogram had Megalancosaurus as an 
even more basal archosauromorph (possibly even near euryapsids?).
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> From: "Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>
>
> And the Crème de la Crème?
> Renesto, S., 2000. Bird-like head on a chameleon body: new specimens of the
> enigmatic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus from the Late Triassic of 
> Northern
> Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontooiga e Stratigrafia, Volume 106, Numero
> 2: 157-180.
>
> 2 new specimens, one with the back of the skull and good skeleton, the 
> other
> has a good skeleton. One with the ?hooked? tail. Basically, he states that
> skull and neck looks avian, but it has nothing to do with the evolution of
> birds. The skull and neck does look like Proavis (which may be another
> argument for Proavis being a chimera). It most likely wasn?t a glider. If 
> it
> was it would have glide like a flying squirrel and not a pterosaur or bird.
>
> Nice paper!
>
> Tracy
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