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Title: Changchunsaurus relationships


Thayer - August 27, 2005 02:05 PM (GMT)
Changchunsaurus is the new recently described ornithischian from China. I've got some personal ideas as to what it might be related to, but how do you all feel? And has anyone bothered to run it in a cladistic analysis? Inclusion in Weishampel et al.'s work from the paper describing Zalmoxes causes it to fall out between "Agilisaurus" multidens and Hypsilophodon. I've had it suggested to me by Jaime that it's very much like Orodromeus but we are currently debating over the jugal "boss". Personally, I feel it seems similiar to the condition of Orodromeus based on the figures from Scheetz's dissertation.




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