RE: semilunate carpal

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> T. Mike Keesey
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Small, isolated theropod teeth could belong to anything and don't mean
> > diddly. Let's see a nice maniraptoran skeleton from the Middle
> Jurassic. I'll
> > bet you it will be small and birdlike, like Archaeopteryx, if
> and when it is
> > found, not big, like Velociraptor.
>
> Has _Proceratosaurus_ ever been considered a maniraptor?
>
In at least some of the most parsimonious trees in my Ostrom Symposium
paper, a Proceratosaurus-Ornitholestes clade comes out within Maniraptora.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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