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Re: the first raptor

From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>
Reply-To: tmk@dinosauricon.com
To: ville sinkkonen <ville_sinkkonen@hotmail.com>
CC: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: the first raptor
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:44:39 -0500 (EST)


"Raptor" is more often used to mean deinonychosaur, though.
_Deinonychosauria_ = Clade(_Deinonychus antirrhopus_ <-- _Passer
domesticus_), so the earliest named, valid members would be Barremian
forms like _Utahraptor_, _Sinornithosaurus_, and perhaps _Microraptor_.


Is Archaeopteryx a deinonychosaur, as implied in the original question?

How old is Phaderolosaurus ilikensis, and is it still classified as a deinonychosaur?

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