Attempt at humor (was RE: Gaia theropod follow-up: a "new" phylogeny

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> chris brochu
>
> When I teach/taught
> my Age of Dinos course, I usually used some sort of consensus tree that
> reflected the disparate views of different workers for the labile taxa
> (many of which have names beginning with "T"), and the tree was still
> well-resolved (we have stats to measure degree of resolution as well).

I observed this aspect as well (the fact that the "T" taxa
(Tyrannosauroidea, Troodontidae, Therizinosauroidea) are the least well
constrained of the major groups of coelurosaurs (okay, Alvarezsauridae,
too)) and honestly thought about putting a footnote on my 1999 poster
advocating the ressurection of the names Deinodontidae, Saurornithoididae,
and Segnosauria so that the position these forms would stabilize...
However, I thought better about it at the last minute, and deleted that part
of the file.

Okay, okay, I know: humor is subjective.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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