Re: Eshanosaurus deguchiianus

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

Julia Heathcote (julia.heathcote@imperial.ac.uk) wrote:

  [...]

  Wondering about *Eshanosaurus*? Currently in review is a paper on the
nature of the beast. Identifying it as prosauropod or therizinosauroid is
difficult, and essentially relates to plesiomoprhies, given one group or
the other, or functional features (there are prosauropods with curved
teeth and swollen bases of the crowns); there are also a dearth of cranial
or essentially lower jaw-related synapomorphies for "prosauropods" or
basal sauropodomorphans. This hampers the issue of identification, at
least in this person's opinion.

  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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