Liliensternus

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

       Shalom, Mr Mortimer: The thoughtful reply was appreciated. However, based upon all of the photographs of the type specimen of  Liliensternus, and the detailed osteological analysis of its morphology compared with other ceratosaurs, there is a closer relationship between it and Dilophosaurus, than between them and Coelophysis (=Syntarsus). My reminations  re: sexual dimorphism were illustrative, not diagnostic. More specimens are needed, but it is probable Dilophosaurus = Liliensternus, as Sam Wells seriously considered after his 1984 monograph was published; the skull of Liliensternus is incomplete, but enough is preserved to make inferences as Gregory Paul did in his restoration of it possible having a dilophosaur-like crest.  In the absence of living animals for PCR sequencing, we can guess, s!
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       Mahzel tov. Stephan P