Re: Nessov's Therizinosaurs

[tholtz <tholtz@geology.umd.edu>]

On 2015-10-01 12:44, gahrdng@mta.ca wrote:
> I recently read Nessov's 1995 monograph "Dinosaurs of Northern 
> Eurasia".

[snip]

> I'm wondering two things:
>
> 1. Given that we now know that therizinosaurs were maniraptors, and we
>  even have good fossils of primitive taxa like Falcarius, how feasible
>  is Nessov's "sloth" hypothesis today? (I'm guessing not very.)

Not at all. However, big therizinosaurs and giant ground sloths might 
not be bad analogs for each other.

> 2. Has the material from Uzbekistan ever been described or figured
> anywhere else? It seems to me that it would still be quite
> scientifically valuable.

Wait for the paper. :-)


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