Re: New Article in Experimental Zoology

[Mike Taylor <mike@seatbooker.net>]

> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:08:16 EDT
> From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
>
> The more strongly arboreal forms were ancestral just to theropods at
> and above the tetanuran grade.

George,

Just to make sure I understand your BCF hypothesis correctly, then:
does it presdict that we should not find transitional forms between
basal neotheropods such as the more primitive ceratosaurs and the
basal tetanurans?  (Because the latter descent from birds, but the
former represent a separate lineage that dies out.)

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