Re: FURRY SINODINOS

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 ELurio@aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 4/27/01 8:39:36 AM, darren.naish@port.ac.uk writes:
>
> << Another thing - the specimen is preserved as if squashed
> dorsoventrally, with the legs splayed out to the sides. This is really
> interesting and another effective refutation of one of the ABSRD
> [homage to Tim] school's arguments. Feduccia has claimed that birds
> can be preserved this way (it's common for frogs and pterosaurs also)
> because, unlike theropods, their bodies are dorsoventrally compressed
> and not deep and laterally compressed like those of theropods.  >>
>
> Not really, we can't be sure if dromaeosaurs are actually theropods, or
> convergant protobirds.

I see where this line of argument is going -- eventually the BAND people
can no longer deny the multitude of common traits in _Dromaeosauridae_ and
_Aves_, and have to move _Dromaeosauridae_ out of _Theropoda_ and into
"proto-Aves". But then they notice the multitude of common traits that
_Dromaeosauridae_ share with _Troodontidae_, _Oviraptorosauria_, and other
_Maniraptora_, and have to move them as well. Then _Ornithomimosauria_ and
_Tyrannosauroidea_, and other _Coelurosauria_. Then _Carnosauria_, then
_Spinosauria_ and "megalosaurs", then _Ceratosauria_, then
_Herrerasauridae_.... Eventually all _Theropoda_ are removed to
"proto-Aves"! :)

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