RE: Segnosaurs ejected from AVES

["Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>]

Tracy Ford wrote (in reply to my post):

> >This should read:

> >As for "Segnosaurs ejected from AVES"... I have a vision of a
> >_Beipiaosaurus_ banging on a door that says AVES - NO UNAUTHORIZED
> >ENTRY, screaming "Let me in!  Let me in!  I promise this is a 'real' 
> >semilunate carpal!  Just give me a chance!"


>Cool, so you got to look at the actual specimen and are going to have it
>written in a per reviewed publication.


Once again your Parthian shot has come off half-cocked.  My response was to
Ken's apomorphy-based definition of Aves, which excludes _Beipiaosaurus_ and
other segnosaurs because (under his interpretation) they do not have a
"true" semilunate carpal.  It has nothing to do with what your response
implies (which I'm not exactly sure of anyway).



Tim