Re: Deinocheirosauria

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In 1976, Barsbold (ref below) described a narrow group of theropods as the
> Deinocheirosauria, and included *Deinocheirus mirificus* and
> *Therizinosaurus cheloniformis* 

Hey, that's kinda neat.

[...]
> Thus, one might want to
> _warily_ find a means of utilizing Barsbold's name, though probably of
> questionable use and I would warn it's only a potential connection.
> 
>   The definition, of course, would incorporate the spirit of Barsbold's
> use, thus = {*Deinocheirus* + *Therizinosaurus*}.

As long as it was clear that _Maniraptoriformes_ has precendence, if they turn 
out to be
heterodefinitional synonyms (as in most phylogenies).

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