EOTYRANNUS & SIAMOTYRANNUS

[<darren.naish@port.ac.uk>]

Fred Bervoets wrote...
 
> If someone on the list has acces to the description of _Eotyrannus_,
> than could he please tell me if  the descibers compared _Eotyrannus_
> with _Siamotyrannus_  from Thailand which could also represent a
> tyrannosaur ancestor? _S.isanensis_ was somewhat larger but from the
> same age as _E.lengi_ and both are considered (by some) ancestors of
> _T.rex_

There is a section in the paper called 'Implications for tyrannosauroid 
evolution'. The work on _Siamotyrannus_ is cited but not discussed - 
except as evidence for the possible Asian origin of ?some 
tyrannosauroid lineages - largely because _S. isanensis_ is based on a 
pelvis and proximal caudals - bits of the skeleton that we hardly know 
for _Eotyrannus_ (oh for an ilium). A la Pharris, I'm not convinced 
that _Siamotyrannus_ is a tyrannosauroid in any case. 

Of course I'm not allowed to mention what I've seen in private 
collections.

DARREN NAISH 
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