Re: Alxasaurus and segnosaurs

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

> Leaving all that aside, here are some hypothetical questions. If we had
> never heard of Alxasaurus, where would the segnosaurs be classified? Would
> Therizinosaurus still be included with the segnosaurs? And, finally, if the
> claimed errors in the Alxasaurus description are in fact errors, is that
> likely to mean that Alxasaurus is not a segnosaur, or that it is but the
> classification needs to be reviewed?
> Boy, what a mess!


     Is is remotely possible the segnosaurs are paraphyletic?

LN Jeff