Re: Shapiro et al.'s new ornithomimosaur

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Nicholas Gardner wrote:

> > 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.

To rephrase the question: Given the fact that you believe the arctomet 
condition evolved multiple times in coelurosaurs, do you think the 
near-arctomet condition of _Microraptor_ as (a) incipient or (b) a secondary 
reversal of the fully arctomet condition.



Tim



Tim

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