Re: Antentonitirus pro-nun-see-a-shun?

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

Mickey Mortimer (Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com) wrote:

<Actually, Antetonitrus would probably be thought of as a prosauropod
using the traditional division between the two sauropodomorph groups. 
After all,
> it is closest to Blikanosaurus and Lessemsaurus.>

  Aside from *Lessemsaurus*, which was not mentioned by Yates and Kitching
and its position in the analysis thus ambiguous, I beleive the
relationship would be a traditional Melanorosauridae/Blikanasauridae
relationship, which have been for a few decades considered close to the
origin of sauropods more so than other "prosauropods."

<I wonder where Gongxianosaurus would go...>

  Or *Jingshanosaurus* with its fairly sauropod-like skull, or
*Bellusaurus* with its sauropodan vertebrae and primitive leg
structure....

  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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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