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Re: Weird mammal cladograms, and dino implications

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Subject: Re: Weird mammal cladograms, and dino implications
From: Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@home.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:08:17 -0400
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>Getting back to dinosaurs, this reminds me of some fascinating stuff I
>heard here recently about paleogeography and bird evolution.
>Specifically, that cariamas, turacos, caracaras, phorusrhacoids, and
>others represent a distincively South American radiation of birds.  Do I
>have that right?
>
>-Nick Pharris

This is news to me - references?  And as turacos are confined to Africa
today, do they really belong here?
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References:
- Weird mammal cladograms, and dino implications
  - From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>
- Re: Weird mammal cladograms, and dino implications
  - From: Pharris Nicholas J <pharrinj@plu.edu>

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