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Re: new _Scleromochlus_ ref
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John R. Hutchinson wrote:
[...]
> Also coins 2 new names that introduce even more confusion into
> archosaur taxonomy. Avesuchia = Birds + Crocodylia (i.e. same as
> Archosauria sensu Gauthier), and Avemetatarsalia = Scler. +
> Ornithodira.
In Adam Yates' post on this publication, he said Avemetatarsalia was
equivalent to Ornithosuchia, a stem-group. Does the paper specify whether
its definition is node- or stem-based?
--T. Michael Keesey
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