Re: A new compsognathid

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Marco Auditore wrote-

> There is a new paper in the new Journal Of Systematic Paleontology:
>
> - Sunny H. Hwang, Mark A. Norell, Ji Qiang, Gao Keqin, 2004, A LARGE
> COMPSOGNATHID FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS YIXIAN, FORMATION OF CHINA.
> Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Volume 2 (Issue 01), 13-30.
>
> It is introduced a new compsognathid, Huaxiagnathus orientalis, known from
> a nearly complete skeleton lacking only the distal end of the tail. From a
> first view, the skull is very similar to the still unnamed new German
> compsognathid. Three finger.

This is the nearly complete specimen shown by Hwang et al. at SVP.  In the
current paper, they refer the "Huaxiasaurus" specimen to Huaxiagnathus.
Importantly, supplementary information is included with 17 new characters
added to the Theropod Working Group Matrix, and several new taxa coded in it
(Sinornithomimus, Archaeornithomimus, Ornithomimus, Anserimimus,
Huaxiagnathus, Sinosauropteryx, Compsognathus, IGM 100/44).  The topology
has compsognathids (Huaxiagnathus (Sinosauropteryx, Compsognathus)) as
maniraptorans more derived than Ornitholestes.  Time to get codin'...

Mickey Mortimer