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RE: My Phylogeny: Now Slowly Comes Science

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> David Marjanovic
>
> Also, I finally had a look at
> http://www.dinosaur.org/news/news01-04-25bird04.html. So there are really
> dromaeosaurs with arctometatarsalian feet. Is it slowly becoming more
> parsimonious that this is a synapomorphy of most people's
> Maniraptoriformes
> (my Eumaniraptora) and was lost several times?

The metatarsi in question are sort of "subarctometatarsalian": they are not
as fully pinched as caenagnathids, troodontids, ornithomimids, _Garudimimus_
(which resembles caenagnathids more than published drawings suggest), and
tyrannosaurids (or as "hyperartcometatarsalian" as mononykines or
_Avimimimus_).

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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