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Re: Origin of Birds

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Origin of Birds
From: "Christopher Straughn" <chrisas@elnet.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:51:11 +0000
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> Think that maybe the Coelurosaurs (sorry if I used an invalid term) could 
> have evolved into birds?  Just a thought...
> Larry Akins

I'm probably wrong, but I thought that Dromaeosaurs and birds and 
Ornithomimids and Tyrannosaurs(!) _were_ Coelurosaurs.  Maybe you're 
thinking of Coelophysids, which are Ceratosaurs, or Coelurids, which 
are somewhere in the Maniraptoriformes.
Chris Straughn

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References:
- Re: Origin of Birds
  - From: akins@msu.oscs.montana.edu

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