NOASAURS AND DACENTRURID DEBUT...

["D.W.Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

NOASAURUS (Here we go Mikiel..)

I haven't seen any material published on Noasaurus recently. Is there any? And,
as it's been lacking from recent theropodian phylogenies, what is the current
consensus on its phy. position? Who believes that it is an abelisaur? Does
anybody not? Any help received would be extremely... er.. helpful. Many thanks.
(If you haven't heard of this little beast, it's a South American Upper Cret.
mimic of the Northern Hemisphere dromaeosaurids, having a sickle claw of
superficial similarity to the latter, but being quite different in detailed
structure. So an excellent example of convergent evolution.)

And what about Alvarezsaurus? This was recently restored in a kid's dinosaur
magazine as a little troodontid-type theropod with a tail about 4 times the
length of its body. Is this interpretation based on anything recently 
published?

DACENTRURIDAE

A new family of Stegosauria proposed by Olshevsky and Ford 1993. First the
Polacanthidae, then the....

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DARREN NAISH