Re: re Scipionyx position

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:29:11  
 calzola wrote:
>Silvio Renesto wrote:
><<Keep in mind that the book is not a professional work, where new data or 
>conclusions are reported. It is a good popular report about italian 
>dinosaurs, dinotracksites  and few other vertebrates, nothing more.
>AFAIK, Scipionyx  has never been thoroughly revised, especially concerning 
>phylogeny. The last paper on this dino baby I am aware of  is that one in 
>Science dealing about the intepretation of the ?liver remains etc. in the 
>view of "hepatic piston" theory By Ruben et al.
>Merry Christmas to everyone....
>
>                                         Silvio Renesto>>
>
>
>Dr. Renesto is perfectly right; I just wanted to point out that what is 
>thought by someone (at least Steve) to be a possible source of new infos about 
>"Ciro" is not,  and was never meant to be. 
>This has nothing to do with the quality of the work which is IMHO way better 
>than anything else written (or translated ) in Italian about dinosaurs at the 
>popular level .
>
>The same features I listed in my previous email are not listed that way in the 
>book.

Oh, yeah, I know that it is supposed to be a popular book written for the 
educated layperson, like so many similarly-toned books written in English.  I 
was told that it may reveal some new sources of phylogenetic information, but 
from Filippo's post I see that isn't likely the case.  

Regardless, it's very, very nice to see an Italian language book on the 
dinosaurs of Italy.  When I was in Italy a few years ago most of the bookstores 
only carried a few fossil books, among them English translations of T. rex and 
the Crater of Doom and some of those Eyewitness books.  Hopefully this volume 
will spark some interest in Italy, and hopefully it will be translated into 
English in the near future!

Steve

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