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From: ELurio@aol.com
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 7:38 PM
To: darren.naish@port.ac.uk; dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: FURRY SINODINOS
In a message dated 4/27/01 8:39:36 AM, darren.naish@port.ac.uk writes:
<< Another thing - the specimen is preserved as if squashed
dorsoventrally, with the legs splayed out to the sides. This is really
interesting and another effective refutation of one of the ABSRD
[homage to Tim] school's arguments. Feduccia has claimed that birds
can be preserved this way (it's common for frogs and pterosaurs also)
because, unlike theropods, their bodies are dorsoventrally compressed
and not deep and laterally compressed like those of theropods. >>
Not really, we can't be sure if dromaeosaurs are actually theropods, or
convergant protobirds.
If you are claiming that dromeosaurs are convergent, then you would have to say the same thing about therizinosaurids, considering that they also have feathery integument!, but I think we can be sure that both these groups ARE theropods.