SHORT Re: woo-o-o-o-o-o-o doggy!

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Revising Hou et al, 96 (woo-o-o-o-o-o-o doggy!)


>   This combines with my previous response on *Avimimus* features.

So *Avimimus* could be a sorta kinda chimera after all, similar to what was
suggested earlier (mid-late 90s)? Interesting.

>   Show me an instance of a tooth developing serrations in a lineage with
> several ancestors with teeth lacking the conditions (besides fish). And
> before you say crocodiles,

I say saber-tooth cats. :o[

>   And how many does *Archaeopteryx*, *Unenlagia* and *Rahonavis* have?

*Archaeopteryx*? 0 facets. *Rahonavis*? No sternum preserved.

> <Notice that not only is Velociraptor's furcula thinner than either
> Sinornithosaurus or Archaeopteryx, it has the small hypocleidium and the
> arms each have a convex inside edge, completely unlike the furculae of the
> other two genera, which have concave internal edges.>

Apomorphy of *Velociraptor*?

>   You say kink, I say curvature ... let's call the whole thing off. I feel
> link singin' ...
>
>   "No laetha geal m'oige..."

Could you translate that? :-)

> ([...] possible loss of pinnate feathers as in ratites).

Ostriches?