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Re: Cladograms

>I am having trouble at how exactly to
>represent a cladogram on this kind of medium; perhaps how they
>did it in _The Dinosauria_.  See ya.

Would the below way of doing it work?  (As an example I'm using
a simplified scheme of the main groups of vertebrates; maybe 
someone can verify that I've done it right--for simplicity's
sake, I have introduced some "pseudo-clades", in quotes.)

                                            
                                            
fig. A
                                       Diapsida (see fig. B)
                                      /             
                             Amniotea(               
                            /         \              
                  Tetrapoda(           "Andiapsida" (see fig. C)
                 /          \          
          Verte-(            Amphibia  
         / brata \                     
Chordata(         "Pisces"             
         \                             
          "Protochordata"




fig. B                                              Theropoda
                                                   /
                                        Dinosauria(
                                       /           \
                        Endosauropsida(             Phytodinosauria
                       /               \
           Archosauria(                 Psuedosuchia
          /            \
         /              "Suchomorpha"
Diapsida(
         \
          "Lepidosauromorpha"





fig. C
                                                Eutheria
                                               /
                                      Mammalia(
                                     /         \
                          Theropsida(           Protheria
                         /           \
               Synapsida(             Therapsida
              /          \
             /            Pelycosauria
"Andiapsida"(
             \
              "Ansynapsida"





                            -- Dave