Cladogramanax giganteus

[Michael de Sosa <ofsosa@uclink4.berkeley.edu>]

Just one quick, wild and fanciful question from out of left field
(I seem to have taken up permanent residence there).

If one had the time and inclination to make truly massive
cladogram, involving every dinosaur species complete enough
to be useful for such an endeavor, plus some outgroups
("lagosuchians", Pterosauria, etc.), how many derived characters
would it involve?  Would the results be useful at all?  Or has this
already been done?

My estimate is 2500-3000.
500 species included*5-6 characters per species
But I may be wrong, even by an order of magnitude.

I woke up this morning with this thought on my mind.  Maybe
a more pertinent question would be: "Why?"

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Michael A. de Sosa
Undergraduate Student
University of California - Berkeley
ofsosa@uclink4.berkeley.edu

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