Re: The Croc That Wanted to Be a Dinosaur

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> As I mentioned on Carl Zimmer's blog "The Loom", chatterjeeids are ostrich 
> mimic mimic mimics (using the normal [backwards]
> paleontological version of "mimicry"). Ratites -> ornithomimosaurs -> 
> _Elaphrosaurus_ -> chatterjeeids.

Please, please, please name the next chatterjeeid 
*Struthiomimomimomimosuchus*!!!

> (Okay, we don't have _Elaphrosaurus_'s skull, and chatterjeeids don't have 
> particularly elongate hindlimbs,
> so these two are foreshadows of ornithomimosaurs and ratites in different 
> ways).

Apart from the skull and the general shape, *Effigia* doesn't look all that 
much like an ornithomimosaur...