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Re: "Megaraptor" a dromaeosaur?

To: tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu
Subject: Re: "Megaraptor" a dromaeosaur?
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:48:58 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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At 02:12 PM 12/17/97 -0500, Mike Keesey wrote:
>A visitor to my site just forwarded me an article saying that Novas
>thought "Megaraptor" evolved convergently with dromaeosaurs. Is this true?
>If so, what does he think "Megaraptor" is? A huge troodontid? What?

Novas has not committed on the subject.  The foot is more gracile than any
typical dromaeosaurid, but it is not arctometatarsalian.

>Speaking of South American sickle-claws, what happened to
>"Araucanoraptor"? Dromaeosaur? Troodontid? Something else?

Still.  In.  Prep.  (Geez, folks, patience!).

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661

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