Tyrannosaurid Cervical

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

hello all! :-)

I am coming across conflicting reports on this issue.  According to Maleev 
1955 (Giant Carnivorous Dinosaurs of Mongolia) and Maleev 1974, 
tyrannosaurids have opisthocoelous cervicals, but according to Maleev 1955 
(New Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia), Makovicky 
1995, and the figures in Currie & Zhiming 2001, they appear to have 
amphicoelous cervicals.  Could someone clarify as to what the heck is going 
on with this?

Also, in regards to my last message about oviraptorosaur mandibular 
symphysi, Incisivosaurus has a fused mandibular symphysis (Xu et al. 2002).

Unrelated to either things and totally off-topic (redundant, I am), does 
anyone know the complete citation for HP Jack Conrad's 1999 article on 
therizinosauroids (The Problematic Therizinosauroids: The Nature of the 
Beasts)?  I think it was published in Dinosaur Illustrated Magazine, but I'm 
not sure of the exacts, and I cannot find that site any longer. :-(

Thanks,

Nick Gardner

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