Re: paleonet Czerkas and Norell in Discover

[Tim Williams <tijawi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh come on!  You're dreaming!  Look at _Falcarius_ - its morphology is exactly what we would expect of a basal segnosaur that evolved from cursorial theropods.  The paper was in _Nature_, I believe. 

 

Yep, the show is over, and the actors are sitting at the bar having drinks.

 

Cheers

 

Tim

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 7/26/2005 10:50:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, tijawi@yahoo.com writes:

Remember when the notion that segnosaurs (therizinosauroids) were theropods was decried as cladist-generated rubbish?  Now we have basal segnosaurs like _Falcarius_ that cement the relationship of segnosaurs within the Theropods.  There are other examples, too numerous to mention.

But now that we have evidence of furculae in prosauropods, one of the key pillars of segnosaurs as theropods is crumbling. Stay tuned, the show is not over yet.

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