Not certain why you ascribe the Super Carnosaur Model (of tyrannosaur
origins) to Abel: when I coined the phrase "Super Carnosaur Model" I
I may be entirely wrong in this, but I was looking at some old books on
Dinosauria- especially a stuffy volume of a certain Swinton. This guy
attributed something like the super carnosaur model to Abel from the Eastern
Reich. However, when I hunted around for abel's own words I found none but
instead found an interesting piece of his in German where he discuss some
thing like character state matrix. What struck me was that he might actually
have been the founder of phylogenetic analysis with matrices. Also he seems
to concede a more darwinian evolutionary scenario.
In any case thanks for the clarification of Osborn's role in this matter.
The number of non-evolutionists in early paleotology seem to have
significance in certain belief that were prevalent in this field.
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