Re: Coelurosaur Phylogeny

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/3/03 8:52:28 PM EST, mightyodinn@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> << The contents did not include _Beipiaosaurus_, _Alxasaurus_, etc. Therefore
> 
> it 
>  is not definitely synonymous with _Therizinosauria_. >>
> 
> Those taxa weren't known when Segnosauria was created; they were added to it 
> later.

The "definition" makes no provisions as to whether these forms should or should
not be included.

> In time there will probably be room for a subgroup Therizinosauria 
> within Segnosauria, if not already.

Why not the other way around, since _Therizinosauria_ is already defined as a
stem-based clade?

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