Re: Deinocheirus

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Carlo Godel wrote:

<Does anyone know what has become of Deinocheirus is
it truly an ornithomimid or has it been placed in
another family?>

  No "family" unless Linnean taxonomy is adhered to.
Dropped that myself when it couldn't work out
titanosaur phylogeny without giving each node it's own
rank-name.

  But anyway, I would think the community (read: the
pros, not us [except for the pros among us]) has come
to a general acceptance of *Deinocheirus* as an
ornithomimosaurian, but perhaps not a relatively
advanced one---*Pelecanimimus* with it's highly
developed hands throws the whole theory of steady
development of hand morphology into doubt, so it's
pretty much in the dust, but I am certain of one
thing: it's a whopping big mama. Stay tuned for an
essay and partial skeletal drawing I've done of Deino
as my site comes online again and I can get to working
on it.

<Have there been any new finds associated with the
animal?>

  Just the type specimen, mounted with just the arms
in Mongolia's State Museum; there's a cast in Poland
[Warsawa], and another in the US [New York: AMNH].
terrific seeing Perle and Kielan-Jaworowska standing
next to these things, and it gives you such an awesome
understanding of the sheer *size* of this animal.
Makes me go gonzo just thing of it.

===
Jaime A. Headden

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