R: SOME ORNITHOPOD STUFF (FOR ONCE)

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Timothy Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
A: amaris@tin.it <amaris@tin.it>; dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Data: lunedì 23 agosto 1999 20.31
Oggetto: Re: SOME ORNITHOPOD STUFF (FOR ONCE)


>>"Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it> wrote:
>>A part from Altirhinus kurzanovi there are also Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
>>that have a nasal crest, similar to that in Altirhinus and Gryposaurus.

>According to Ralph Molnar (and I think Paul Sereno as well)
>_Muttaburrasaurus_ is not an iguanodontid, nor even closely related to
>_Iguanodon_, but probably lies closer to the base of the Euornithopoda
>(perhaps as a basal iguanodontian).

Yes, I saw this, in fact, in my computer I have classified Muttaburrasaurus
as a basal Iguanodontia with Tenontosaurus and Rhabdodon.

>A "thumb-spike" reported in the
>original description of _Muttaburrasaurus_ (Bartholomai & Molnar 1981) was
>re-interpreted more recently by Molnar as an indeterminate bone fragment.
>_Mutta_ might turn out to be a big-ass relative of certain Aussie
>hypsilophodonts.


The re-interpretation of Molnar is a personal communication or is pubblished
in some paper?
Because, if this is right I can re-examined my skeletal drawing of
Muttaburrasaurus.

By
Alessandro Marisa
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