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Re: Gaia theropod follow-up: a "new" phylogeny



_*WHY*_ do compsognathids come out closer to birds than
arctometatarsalians???

> However, at SVP I will be tearing much of the above structure apart, and
> presenting a whole new, even more detailed (URGH) phylogenetic analysis of
> the theropods.

I hope mine will be published in the meantime... (okay, okay, judging from
the method mine isn't worth much. I have used about 20 characters or less,
and I haven't used a computer (for lack of PAUP, MacClade et omnia. But who
knows, maybe among these characters are just the ones everyone has
overlooked before...). Ref will be:
David MarjanoviÄ: Is Archaeopteryx really a bird? The Dinosaur Society
Quarterly Review, probably the next issue