Re: the first raptor

["Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>]

Ken Kinman wrote-

>      I thought that I had heard the name "utahraptorines" before.  You
also
> mentioned it in a post in October.  But I have been unable to find it
> anywhere else.  I would be interested to know which genera it includes
> (besides Utahraptor, of course).  Or do we have to W4MA (= wait for
Mickey's
> analysis)?         :-)

The reason you haven't found it anywhere else is because it doesn'y
officially exist (hence the quotation marks).  I use it for the group
containing Utahraptor and Achillobator, as Britt et al.'s (2001) SVP
presentation gave good evidence the two are related.  They are both rather
primitive looking eumaniraptorans (stout coracoid, proximally placed
obturator process, etc.) with cervical centra that have two pairs of
pleurocoels (like enigmosaurs).  I wonder if my revised analysis will
support the group....

Britt, Chure, Stadtman, Madsen, Scheetz and Burge, 2001. New osteological
data and the affinities of Utahraptor from the Cedar Mountain Fm. (Early
Cretaceous) of Utah. JVP 21(3) 36A.

Mickey Mortimer