Re: Segnosaurs ejected from AVES

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

     Sorry Mickey, but I don't understand why you think this is such a 
"horrible" decision.  According to Jaime, segnosaurs lack fully-capped 
metacarpals I and II (flexor-extensorly) and do not have the classic 
semilunate shape (as well as being unfused).  This is not a "true" 
semilunate carpal block on several points.
     Segnosaurs also lack the convex coracoid glenoid, and apparently have 
a primitive eggshell type (perhaps controversial?).
     And I would have to agree that there are fewer enigmosaur 
synapomorphies than people on this list seem to think (at least 
synapomorphies that are exclusively enigmosaurian).  I see too many 
homoplasy "red flags" waving around.  Something just isn't right about this 
"enigmosaur" holophyly thing in my opinion.  I just can't get around this.  
Sorry, but I simply don't see it.
         -----  Ken


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