RE: Tyrannosaurs and Nannopterygius - unusual combination?

[Michael Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

Andrew McDonald wrote-

> With the discussions of whether basal tyrannosauroids survived into the 
> Late
> Cretaceous, I am wondering if anyone recalls reports of a 'Bagaraatan - 
> like'
> theropod from Romania. I cannot give a reference, but I don't believe 
> anything
> of that nature has been published anyway.

Csiki and Grigorescu (1998) thought Bagaraatan resembled several Romanian 
theropods, including Heptasteornis (now placed in Alvarezsauridae), the less 
diagnostic maniraptoriform Bradycneme, the paravian Elopteryx, and an 
unnamed distal femur (FGGUB R.351) that was tentatively assigned to 
Abelisauridae.  The latter should be reexamined in light of recent abelisaur 
discoveries and Xinjiangovenator.

Csiki and Grigorescu, 1998. Small Theropods from the Late Cretaceous of the 
Hateg Basin (Western Romania) - an unexpected diversity at the top of the 
food chain. Oryctos, vol. 1 : 87-104.

Mickey Mortimer