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Re: DINOTREE

At 9:55 AM 10/5/95, th81 wrote:

>If Hans-Dieter Sues is correct (and I think he is), Elmisauridae is a junior
>synonym of Caenagnathidae.

        Having read Sues' abstract in last year's SVP Abstract Volume, as
well as hearing his talk, I was under the impression that _Caenagnathus_,
_Macrophalangia_, and the Elmisauridae were all now synonymous with
_Chirostenotes_, which, in turn, was a North American oviraptorosaur, based
on the new skull and material.  Did I miss something?



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it is the sister taxon to, but cannot parsimoniously be, the direct
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