Comments on the juvenile Megaraptor specimen and systematic positions of megaraptoran theropods
Yeonsu High School, Incheon, South Korea
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Evolutionary Studies, Paleontology, Taxonomy, Zoology
- Keywords
- Megaraptor, Megaraptora, Coelurosauria, Tyrannosauroidea
- Copyright
- © 2015 Yun
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- 2015. Comments on the juvenile Megaraptor specimen and systematic positions of megaraptoran theropods. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e851v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.851v1
Abstract
In this paper, I comment on Porfiri et al. (2014), "Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation". Though Porfiri et al. provided numerous coelurosaurian characters on the Megaraptor specimen, their referral of the taxon to tyrannosauroidea is based on some problematic characters. Also, the specimen bears a feature which does not correspond to tyrannosauroidea. All things considered, the suggested evidences supporting the position of Megaraptora within tyrannosauroidea are weak.
Author Comment
The former version of this paper is available at http://figshare.com/articles/Comments_on_juvenile_Megaraptor_specimen_and_systematic_positions_of_megaraptoran_theropods/1314364.