Re: Feduccia's delusion

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> <<  (before AFAIK 1999 Mesosauridae were regarded as the only
> non-reptilian sauropsids),  >>
>
> Actually, turtles were considered by some to be "parareptiles."

And Parareptilia is a part of both Eureptilia and Reptilia, as illogic as it
appears to me judging from the name Parareptilia. This case cries for the
PhyloCode.

Current view IIRC:

Amniota (node)
  |--Synapsida = Theropsida (stems)
  |
  `--Sauropsida (stem)
      Reptilia (node) = Eureptilia (node?)
       |
       |--?Anapsida = Proganosauria* (stem)
       |       |--Mesosauridae
       |       `--?Anapsida = Parareptilia* (node)
       |
       `--Romeriida (stem?)
             |--Captorhinidae
             `--+--Protorothyrididae s. str.
                  `--Diapsida

* are the names that come into effect if turtles are diapsids (Anapsida is
defined as including them). Unfortunately I haven't copied the
Palaeontologia Africana article on that and forgot a name.
Protorothyrididae sensu stricto includes *Hylonomus*, *Paleothyris* and
apparently a few others. P.idae sensu lato was polyphyletic.