Re: Coelurosauria Cladogram is here!

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Grant,
     Nice site.  I would suggest adding Dryptosaurus at the base of your 
tree (and perhaps Proceratosaurus even basal to that).
     I based my latest classification (posted in early July) in part on 
some of Mickey Mortimer's analyses, so there are some definite similarities. 
 I would personally prefer to keep Compsognathines in a separate clade from 
Scipionyx and from Coelurus, and I definitely think Ornithomimes split off 
in a more derived position (after Nqwebasaurus).
     Tyrannosauroids might have split off before Nedcolbertia, but it is 
difficult to pin them down to a particular spot.  And I still believe 
"Enigmosauria" is probably paraphyletic (with therizinosaurs splitting off 
between ornithomimes and oviraptorosaurs as I noted in my recent 
classification of neotheropods---see below).
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     Okay, I am leaving therizinosaurians as a clade (with Beipiaosaurus as 
sister group to the others).  But still splitting them off as a separate 
clade before the oviraptorosaur clade.
      ------Cheers, Ken (DML July 2001)

8  Guaibasauridae
9  Coelophysidae
10  Ceratosauridae
_a_  Abelisauridae
11  Spinosauridae (spinosaurs)
B  Torvosauridae ("megalosaurs")
12  Allosauridae ("carnosaurs")
13  Coeluridae (basal coelurosaurs)
         1  Proceratosaurus
         ?  Deltadromaeus (carnosaur??)
         2  Dryptosaurus
         3  Nedcolbertia
         4  Ornitholestes
         ?  Santanaraptor
         5  {{Tyrannosauridae}}
         6  Compsognathus
         B  Sinosauropteryx
         7  Scipionyx
         8  Coelurus
         9  Nqwebasaurus
        10  {{Ornithomimidae to AVES}}
_a_  Tyrannosauridae (sensu lato)
_1_  Ornithomimidae
2A   Plesion _Beipiaosaurus_
B   Therizinosauridae
3   Plesion _Protarcheopteryx_
4A   Caudipteridae (probably paraphyletic)
B   Caenagnathidae
C   Oviraptoridae
5   Plesion _Bagaraatan_
6   Avimimidae
?   Troodontidae (misfits??)
7   Alvarezsauridae
8   Dromaeosauridae (deinonychosaurs)
9   Plesion _Unenlagia_
10   Plesion _Rahonavis_
11   {{AVES/AVEA}}
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> From: "Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>
> Reply-To: granth@cyberus.ca
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Coelurosauria Cladogram is here!
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:09:00 -0400
>
> Yes!!!!!!!
>
> After years of saying "This summer it'll be finished", my website's 
> Coelurosauria Cladogram section is finally done and ready for viewing.
>
> Please go and check it out.  The URL is:
> http://www.cyberus.ca/~sharding/grant/cladogram
>
> The website in general can be accessed at:
> http://www.cyberus.ca/~sharding/grant
>
> Many thanks to HP Mickey Mortimer, for providing me with the results of his 
> no-flight-related-characters analysis, the phylogeny of which is used on my 
> page.  Thanks also to everyone here who answered my endless questions: 
> Thomas R. Holtz, John V. Jackson, T. Michael Keesey, David Marjanovic, 
> Tommy Tyrberg, and so many more.
>
> Enjoy, and let me know what you think of it!
>
> All the best,
>
> -Grant Harding
> amateur palaeontologist


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