RE: FW: Thoughts on Eotyrannus

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Darren Naish wrote:

>  Note that it's _Fusinasus_, not _Fusinasius_. Not exactly my favourite 
> name - I hope
> everyone agrees that _Eotyrannus_ is a tad better :)

Yes, I heard this name a long time ago, and I remember telling Darren that 
"Fusinasus" sounded like a genus of fungus, and that anything was an 
improvement on that name (though perhaps not "Kittysaurus", which is even 
worse).

> A novel analysis found a more or less standard
> tyrannosauroid tree BUT with _Tanycolagreus_ as the most
> basal tyrannosauroid,

Hmmm... now, isn't there another named small-bodied tyrannosaur from the 
Morrison, known from material that does not currently overlap that of 
_Tanycolagreus_; and wasn't some material now referred to _Tanycolagreus_ 
originally referred to this (other) tyrannosaur taxon...?  (Sorry for the 
circumspection, but I don't want to raise anyone's ire by suggesting that 
*maybe* two Morrison coelurosaur taxa might be synonymous.  ;-)  )

Cheers

Tim