Re: NON-TROODONTS

["T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:

> T. Mike Keesey included the following beasts in his list of probable 
> troodontids. I have some comments..
> 
> > _Troodon? isfarensis_
> > indeterminate material from the Cedar Mountain Formation
> 
> Cedar Mountain Fm? I thought this was one of Nessov's Soviet taxa. 

Those two lines are two separate entries, not equivalent.

> Another one is _T. asiamericana_.

Whoops, forgot this one. Why is it listed on my pages as _Saurornithoides? 
asiamericanus_ ... I must keep better track of my sources... 
 
> > And maybe:
> > "_Araucanoraptor_"
> 
> Only circulating rumours and the name are publicly known for this one 
> at present: do not take its tentative allocation to Troodontidae here 
> at all seriously.

I place it as Maniraptoriformes incertae sedis on my site -- I was just
trying to mention all the possibilities.
 
--T. Mike Keesey
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