Re: UTILITY OF CLADE NAMES

["Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU>]

At 09:03 PM 4/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Holtz could have named the clade Fred for all I care,
        Sereno would then name Neofred (or just label the node Bill without
explaining his definition), and Padian et al. would turn right around and
name Eufred. Then we'd get Parafred, Protofred, Profred, Paleofred
(paraphyletic), and _Archaeofredus holtzi_ (turns out to be a derived member
of the Frediformes within the Fredimorpha). And the sad part about it would
be that none of them would contain elmisaurs.
        :)
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