Re: Sundry responses of Bois

[KiernanCR@aol.com]

Thomas Holtz wrote:

>>I don;t have a problem with "2"; however, Reptilia is very much monophyletic
as long as you put Aves in Reptilia (as is done by many workers today).<<

But what about Mammalia? If we exclude them from Reptilia, doesn't that 
render the class paraphyletic, since mammals did evolve from reptilian 
ancestors? I agree that Reptilia is monophyletic, if Mammalia and Aves are 
included (and that's what I should have said in the first place, instead of 
stating that Reptilia, in the older sense of the order, was paraphyletic -- 
which is why I originally qualified "reptiles" with quotation marks).

Caitlin R. Kiernan