Re: Alvarezsaurs/Ornithomimosaurs (was Re: T. bataar)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Nick,
    Well Patagonychus is a nice intermediate between "something" and 
mononykines, but I'm not convinced that Alvarezsaurus is that "something".
    Seems to me it would be more prudent to put Patagonychus in a Family 
Mononykidae, and obviously Alvarezsaurus goes in Alvarezsauridae.
    Two separate families, two separate OTUs----at least until we have more 
of an Alvarezsaurus skeleton to work with.  In my opinion somebody really 
jumped the gun in dumping these all into one family, which is something a 
"lumper" like me rarely says.
                ------Ken Kinman
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> From: NJPharris@aol.com
> Reply-To: NJPharris@aol.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Alvarezsaurs/Ornithomimosaurs (was Re: T. bataar)
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:51:38 EST
>
> In a message dated 1/27/01 2:10:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kinman@hotmail.com writes:
>
> >      Any likelihood that Alvarezsaurus is sister group to an
> >  ornithomimid-mononykine clade?
>
> Apparently not, as _Patagonykus_ is said to be a nice intermediate between
> _Alvarezsaurus_ and Mononykinae (but not particularly ornithomimid-like).
>
> --Nick P.
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