Re: Eponymous Taxa [was: RE: new _Scleromochlus_ ref]

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

"Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU> wrote:


>         *Archosauria (= Avesuchia)
>           Pseudosuchia

I wish someone would perform the last rites on this silly old name.  As has 
pointed out before (and published by someone in JVP, not too long ago), the 
name is highly inappropriate.  The Pseudosuchia, as currently defined, 
includes (among other assorted archosaurs) the Crocodilia.  We have a 
situation where the Crocodilia (true crocodiles) is contained within the 
Pseudosuchia ("false crocodiles").

>           Ornithosuchia (as redefined above, _incerta sedis_)
>           Avemetatarsalia


Tim


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