Re: Dino placements...

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Kelly Wicks (paleo_mont@excite.com) wrote:

<I am reworking my website. And with some newer information. I am wondering 
were is _Microvenator
celer_ fits in. clade or family(preferabally).  Also _Camaraursaurus_ I looked 
at Serenos
cladogram and well, are they in Brachiosauridae or Diplodocidae? or do they 
have their own special
spot?>

  Microvenator is a basal oviraptorosaur by latest analyses, and by my own, 
unpublished work.
Positive identification of the right dentary adds to Makovicky and Sues, 1997, 
analysis which only
vaguely supported the position. Subsequent description of Caudipteryx provides 
more insight in
basal oviraptorosaurs, but no resolution further.

  Camarasaurus is a camarasaurid, a group that requires further resolution. 
Please refer to
discussion two weeks ago, Camarasaurus came up rather prominently. Available 
discussion is there.
Camarasaurus is neighther diplodocid/oid, or even brachiosaurid.


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Jaime A. Headden

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