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Re: Forthcoming theropod paper of note on the manus

--- Aspidel <aspidel@wanadoo.be> wrote:
> 
> From: "Nick Gardner"
> 
> >
> > It seems unlikely if Eoraptor lunensis and the herrerasaurids are
> theropods,
> > but I recall in the SVP abstracts from 2001 that they might not be.
> 
> What could they be if they aren't theropods? Basal dinosaurs, more basals
> than any theropod? Protodinosaurs as _Marasuchus_?

It has been proposed that they are non-dinosaurian dinosauriforms, closer to
dinosaurs than _Marasuchus_ and _Pseudolagosuchus_, but, unless I'm mistaken,
it now seems to be more popular to regard them as basal saurischians, outside
Sauropodomorpha and Theropoda.

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