Re: CAUDIPTERYX - AN OVIRAPTOROSAUR?

["Ray Stanford" <starsong@prodigy.net>]

National Geographic - Nature press conference is at 10:30 A.M., Tuesday,
June 23, 1998.  Audio and Webcam coverage available.  You'll need RealAudio.
Go to nationalgeographic.com for details.

    Ray Stanford
-----Original Message-----
From: Tetanurae@aol.com <Tetanurae@aol.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 8:16 PM
Subject: CAUDIPTERYX - AN OVIRAPTOROSAUR?


>I have just gotten the National Geographic with the Caudipteryx photos.
Some
>features that I have been able to make out have made me wonder if this
thing
>is an oviraptorosaur.
>
>The photos, like all the recent pop-science photos of the Yixian dinos, are
>absolute crap.  There are some details though that are very interesting.
The
>illia and ischia are very reminiscent of those observed in Ingenia and
>Oviraptor.  The ischium however, is also similar to that in the new
>dromaeosaur described by Norrell and Mackovicky (or was it Mackovicky and
>Norrell?).
>
>The head is short and tall and appears mostly toothless.  The manus is not
>derived in the manner of Compsognathids (short MCI1, large ungual claw),
>Ornitholestids (short MCI1), or Ornithomimids (long MCI1).  The pes is not
>arctometatarsalian either.
>
>This thing is really neat :-)  Does anyone have any idea what time of the
day
>this press conference is going to be tomorrow and how much media attention
it
>may or may not get?
>
>Peter Buchholz
>Tetanurae@aol.com
>
>"That's not how it happened dumbass: Kenny just dies eight hours ago, how
>could he have died then too?"
>"Oh, you're right, that doesn't make sense."