Re: Questions

[Steven Mahon <floridamahon@yahoo.com>]

--- Jaime Headden <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com> wrote:

>   Well, therizinosauroids and some birds have very
> short ascending processes;

Do you mean Alxasaurus & Beipaosaurus have it too? Or
is it unknown in those? Is it in Confuciusornis?
 
>   The feature mentioned was cranial. In fact, only
> *Erlikosaurus* possesses a
> decent skull. The skull of *Alxasaurus* is limited
> to teeth and a dentary; that
> of *Segnosaurus* to the lower jaw; that of
> *Nothronychus* to teeth and a
> posterior braincase; *Beipiaosaurus* has a partial
> dentary and some fragments of
> skull that are largely indistinct where it is not
> possible to define details
> without some ample amount of imagination; and that
> of *Neimongosaurus* to a
> rostral dentary. Nearly the entire skull is known
> exclusively for
> *Erlikosaurus.* Because of this, workers who study
> the taxa generally do not try
> to say that because *Erlikosaurus* has the features,
> all therizinosauroids do
> so.

Aahhh! Now it makes sense!:)

    Thanks Again, 
       Steven Mahon

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