Re: ALVAREZSAUR SUBCLADES (AGAIN)

["T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Tetanurae wrote:

> In the text of figure 4, Chiappe et al state: 
> 
> Mononykinae is phylogenetically defined as the common ancestor of Mononykus,
> Shuvuuia, and Parvicursor, plus all their descendants.
> 
> So ya.......  Parvicursor is a mononykine...  mononykus, is of course, not a
> parvicursorid because it was explicetly excluded in that family's definition.

A family within a subfamily? I'm all for the abandonment of supergeneric
ranks, but are we really ready for this?

--T. Mike Keesey
tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu
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