Re: Dryptosaurus species specifics

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

Mickey Mortimer (Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com) wrote:

<Where oh where did this connection between Bahariasaurus (= Deltadromeus;
I'm tired of uselessly separating the two) and Dryptosaurus originate?>

  Apart from *Dryptosaurus,* referral of *Deltadromeus* to *Bahariasaurus*
is not confirmable. First of, the types are not fully comparable and
possess distinctions. Portions of the hypodigm that Stromer referred to
*B. ingens* have been shown to belong to *D. agilis*, but this does not
neccessarily mean that *B.* and *D.* are synonymous. Similarly, it does
not argue that *B.* and *D.* are, in fact, not sister species and the
Egyptian material all does belong to *B.* This is the problem with largely
dissarticulated material where general size and inferred affinity form a
hypodigm.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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