Re: Feduccia's delusion

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/1/01 1:58:29 PM EST, tmk@dinosauricon.com writes:
>
> << Indeed, you can abbreviate it to just _Sauria_. >>
>
> I intended to use Sauria (Greek for "lizards") for the stem group that
> includes Lacertilia (Latin for "lizards") and all animals more closely
> related to Lacertilia  (modern, i.e., crown-group, lizards) than to snakes
> (Serpentes: Latin for snakes).

In the classifications I've seen, _Sauria_ is the diapsid crown group. The
stem-based clade you refer to is _Lepidosauromorpha_.

> Ophidia (Greek for "snakes") would be the complementary stem group
> comprising Serpentes and all animals more closely related to modern
> snakes than to modern lizards.

Sounds good to me.

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