Re: T-Tip

["Mickey Mortimer" <mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com>]

Jaime Headden responded to my Protoavis comment-

>>   From what I've seen, *Protoavis* lacks this
>> condition, but this "pes" may or may not be a pes.


Micheal Keesey wrote-

>I have a feeling he meant _Avimimus_.


Not so.  I did indeed mean Protoavis.  I would have mentioned Avimimus, but
for a few problems.  The first is, of course, it could be a chimaera,
although Watabe did a talk at the University of Washington last year with
new remains supposedly showing it was real.  I personally believe it is a
real taxon.  Secondly, in all my analyses it comes out as the sister group
of another arctometatarsalian taxon (either mononykines or troodontids).
Thus, as either a chimaera or the sister group of another arcto (in my
opinion), it doesn't help to prove my point that the arctometatarsus evolved
more than once.

Mickey Mortimer