My 1st Dinosaur classification

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

Dear All,
    I'm probably rushing this, but have non-dinosaur things needing more 
attention.  I'm no longer going to even try keeping saurischiforms and 
ornithischiforms as sister groups (where the later split off is obviously 
not going to be settled in the near future).
    I had already been including Pseudolagosuchus as saurischiforms, and 
there is no longer any good reason to exclude Lagerpetonidae and 
Lagosuchidae as "non-dinosaur dinosauromorphs".  My Order Saurischiformes 
will be coded as paraphyletic with respect to Ornithischiformes, and if a 
phytodinosauria clade does exist, I can easily code for that.  But for now I 
will be conservative and keep coding it as if the cladistic saurischians are 
sister group to Order Ornithischiformes.
    In the coelurosaur clade, note that I have removed Family Coeluridae 
(sensu stricto) from the paraphyletic Family Ornitholestidae (as I had done 
previously), just in case Holtz' most recent cladograms are correct.   Also 
moved Troodontidae up to see if I like a bullatosauria clade or not (I'm as 
unsure about troodonts as anyone else; those T.'s really are a pain in the 
cladogram).
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ORDER SAURISCHIFORMES
     1  Lagerpetonidae
     2  Lagosuchidae
     3  Plesion _Pseudolagosuchus_
     4  {{Ornithischiformes}}***(note below)
     5  Massospondylidae
    6A  Plateosauridae
     B  Barapasauridae
     C  Euhelopodidae
     D  Diplodocidae
     E  Camarasauridae
     F  Brachiosauridae
     G  Titanosauridae
     7  Plesion _Eoraptor_
     8  Herrerasauridae
     9  Guaibasauridae
    10  Coelophysidae
     B  Ceratosauridae
    _a_ Abelisauridae
    11  Spinosauridae
    12  Torvosauridae
    13  Allosauridae
    14  Ornitholestidae
     ?  Tyrannosauridae
     ?  Coeluridae (sensu stricto)
    _1_ Ornithomimidae
     ?  Troodontidae
     2  Therizinosauridae
     3  Caudipteridae
    _a_ Oviraptoridae
     4  Alvarezsauridae
     5  Dromaeosauridae
     6  Plesion _Rahonavis_
     7  {{AVES}}
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***NOTE:   This placement of the {{Ornithischiformes}} is fairly 
conservative, and makes it a sister group of the cladistic "saurischians".  
Will assume loss of the 5th toe occurred twice (at least for now).
    If I understand George's ideas (correct me if I'm wrong), he would move 
sauropods (my clade 6B-G) up as the second clade (right after 
Lagerpetonidae), and move my two "lagosuchia" clades down (splitting off 
just before Eoraptor).
     I may well recognize more than just two broad families of prosauropods 
in the future, but at least this reflects my belief that they are 
paraphyletic rather than holophyletic.  I will be presenting a coded family 
classification of Ornithischiformes in the future.   Comments welcome.
                       ------Ken Kinman
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