Re: Suspicions of Integument on Pelicanimimus After All

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "TIMOTHY BRIDGEMAN" <timlee3005@earthlink.net>

> So far I've seen evidence (or good reason to believe) for feathery 
> integument in the
> compsognathids(Sinosauropteryx),dromaeosaurs(Sinornithosaurus 
> "Dave"),troodontids(Microraptor >seems to share features in common with 
> this group,as well as the dromaeosaurs),oviraptorsaurs (Caudipteryx and 
> Protarchaeopteryx as Mickey Mortimer pointed out to me),and now the 
> >ornithomimids(Pelicanimimus).

Not to mention the therizinosaurs (Beipiaosaurus).

And as I've been out of the loop lately with respect "higher" theropod 
phylogeny, is Microraptor no longer considered to be a basal dromaeosaurid?

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

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