Re: palaeognaths (NEORNITHINE PHYLOGENY)

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

Didn't one recent study posit _Lithornithiformes_ as the sister group to
_Neornithes_? (The only non-neornithean dinosaur survivors of the K/T! :)

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, fredericus ruhe wrote:

> Dear Ken,
>
> I do not agree with your conclusions,
>
> Sibly and Monroe, 1990 classified paleognaths as Parvclass Ratitae,
> including the orders Struthioniformes and Tinamiformes, indicating a close
> relationship between those taxa of palaeognaths, and that agrees with your
> division.
> But there are still the Lithornithiformes Houde 1986. to be considered,
> volant, small, palaeognath's, probebly close to Tinamiformes, but old enough
> to be the "father of" both Struthioniformes and Tinamiformes.
> [...]

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