Re: Erlic/kosaurus

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-05-28 12:44:51 EDT, jrw6f@faraday.clas.virginia.edu
writes:

>In this case, it seems that postcranial features are pushing us to
>the conclusion that segnosaurs are derived coelurosaurian theropods.

Which postcranial characters are these? Pneumatization of the axial
skeleton, which runs rampant through Theropoda and even Prosauropoda
and Sauropoda?  Semilunate carpal, which I have yet to see in any
segnosaurian specimen, but which everybody says is there (like the
emperor's new clothes)? Don't forget that Huene once thought
prosauropods were closely related to coelurosaurians.  The
coelurosaurian features you may see in segnosaurs could be their
coelurosaur-like prosauropod characters in various derived states.