RE: Need Rahonavis refs

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Erik Boehm
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:43 PM
> To: Dinosaur Mailing List; ddkrentz@charter.net
> Subject: Re: Need Rahonavis refs
> 
> Sorry for the multiple e-mails
> 
> One of my links was to a thumbnail image of little use, the 
> site has a larger image (perhaps the best unembellished 
> image) http://www.dinosauria.com/pics/general/sickle.gif
>

Please note that all of the images in this thread so far that show the skull
do so under the old model of Rahonavis being a basal bird. As nearly all
recent phylogenetic analyses place it as an unenlagiine dromaeosaurid, it
might well have a skull more similar to Buitreraptor and Austroraptor.

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