Re: Dinos galore [snip] and Tendaguru dinos

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

Tim Williams wrote:
> At the very least, adult _Alioramus_ would probably have had more elaborate 
> cranial ornamentation than _Tarbosaurus_.

Of course.

I've been reading some of the new papers (I don't have them all yet), in 
particular, Currie et al.'s phylogeny paper.  I don't like that it excludes 
ornithomimosaurs and maniraptorans since they are closer taxa to the 
tyrannosaurids than Allosaurus and I wonder what kind of effect this is 
having on the results.  Also, it seems strange that they would exclude 
postcranial characters without at least providing a reason for doing so.

Also, I've never seen this paper mentioned before-

Mader, B.J. and Bradley, R.L. 1989. Aredescription and revised diagnosis
of the syntypes of the Mongolian tyrannosaur Alectrosaurus olseni.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9: 41?55.

Has anyone read it?


> _Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki_ is the only Tendaguru ornithopod that I know 
> of.  It's sometimes placed in its own genus, _Dysalotosaurus_.

Huh.  I thought it was from northern Africa.  Guess I'm wrong.


Nick Gardner

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