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Re: WYLEYIA A DROMAEOSAUR? [and a word on Yaverlandia]

To: Timothy Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: WYLEYIA A DROMAEOSAUR? [and a word on Yaverlandia]
From: AM Yates <Adam.Yates@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:09:54 +0100 (BST)
Cc: Mickey_Mortimer@email.msn.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Timothy Williams wrote:

>  With the Malagasy genus 
> _Majungatholus_ now known to be an abelisaur, and _Taveirosaurus_ of Europe 
> an undetermined ornithischian, pachycephalosaurs are now described for 
> certain only from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia 
> (Chatterjee's Late Triassic pachies from India notwithstanding).
> 

Stenopelix still stands as an Early Cretaceous, European
pachycephalosaur. This based on a number of good postcranial
synapomorphies (see Sereno, 1999). I'm especially impressed with the
long rod-like sacral ribs.

cheers

Adam Yates

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