Re: Tyrannosauroids and dromaeosaurs

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

--- Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't believe I've ever explicitly defined Enigmosauria, though I've
> thought of it as something akin to "All taxa sharing a more recent common
> ancestor with Enigmosaurus mongoliensis and Oviraptor philoceratops than
> with Ornithomimus velox, Troodon formosus, Deinonychus antirhhopus or Vultur
> vultur."  Consider that my working definition.  We'll have to wait until
> 1-1-200n for an official definition of course.

The diagram is ambiguous as to what sort of definition the taxon would have. As
the taxon was only *accidentally* left in for one diagram and the index, and
never in the body of the text, I think usage should be discouraged. At least
put it in quotes.


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