Pteromimus affinities

[David Peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>]

I should have done this earlier.

Pteromimus affinities do indeed include pterosaurs. More so with  
langobardisaurs, however. The dentition is primitive, resembling that  
of Macrocnemus T4822, the current phylogenetic precursor to  
langobardisaurs. Otherwise, the bulging frontals, descending  
parietals, large orbit, antorbital fenestra without fossa, elongated  
non-terminal naris and elongated cervical are all characters found in  
this clade. And the size is about right.

What I wrote earlier about scutes,  a thick fibula and parallel  
metatarsals evidently pertains only to Procoelosaurus, which is  
something else.

David Peters
St. Louis