Re: Shapiro et al.'s new ornithomimosaur

["Nicholas Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

--- Tim Williams wrote:
> ...and mononykine alvarezsaurids and avimimids (if _Avimimus_'s arctomet 
> condition is not synapomorphic with that of caenagnathids).

Thank you, I had forgotten about those taxa.

> How do you account for the "near-arctometatarsalian" metatarsus of 
> _Microraptor_?

I was only considering the arctometatarsalian condition itself which is all 
that either Kobayashi & Lü (2003) and Shapiro et al. (2003) discuss.  I did 
not think it was relevant to discuss other conditions as the list was 
already aware of them.

Nick Gardner

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