Re: The Continuing Story of Gliders to Dinosaurs

["Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>]

Now, could a jerboa-analogous, cursorial, leaping _Marasuchus_ have had
descendants adapted for arboreality, which then *retained* the leaping
ability and evolved into indri-analogous vertical tree-leapers?  This would
make sense.  Any problems with the idea?  (Like, for example, in becoming
adapted for climbing, would they have automatically *lost* the leaping
ability, thus making this phylogeny less credible?)

-Grant

P.S. Where is _Marasuchus_ generally classified on the ornithosuchian family
tree?
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