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

["Mickey_Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer@email.msn.com>]

You wrote-

> Okay, 41 ingroup taxa (plus 3 fragmentary specimens held in reserve, each
> added independantly) and 386 characters, run with either Herrerasauridae,
> basal Sauropodomorpha, or an allzero outgroup as sister taxa.

Arghh! I can no longer say my analysis uses more characters than any
published study ;-).  I have a measly 296 entered and 50 or so still being
studied.  Then again, I only deal with coelurosaurs.  I have a couple
questions.  Does the Ceratosauria still come out as monophyletic in your
newest studies or is it paraphyletic, as several others have found?  How did
you ever get basal coelurosaurs to get organized?  They just love huge
polytomies in my analyses.  I can't wait to read it!

> 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.

Noooo!  I better get to work :-)

Mickey Mortimer