Re: Adasaurus

["ekaterina amalitzkaya" <eamalitz@hotmail.com>]

I am very sorry to have mentioned Adasaurus phalanges in my previous mail. 
It was a slip, actually have seen none of them. Actually I only meant the 
picture of the Distal hind limb that I placed along side with that of 
Rahonavis and Archaeopteryx. I was looking looking a the Dromeosaurus 
tarsals + MTs and there was no sickle claw. The thick metatarsal IIs were 
impressively similar in all of them.Hence I thought the superimposition of 
Rahonavis and Adasaurus. The sickle claw in Megaraptor and Velociraptor are 
clearly much longer. Has a claw been ever described from Dromeosaurus.

Mr.Mortimer's results regarding Archaeornithoides are of great interest. I 
guess the Spinosaur connection can be considered entirely  convergent? Did 
your matrix include Cheirostenotes including Sues' new material? Also the 
position of Avimimus is exciting what are are the apomopies that group it 
with the bitds?
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