Re: Amniota to Mammalia in four easy steps

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

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From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:52 PM

Just nitpicking...

> _Thriodontia_,

Certainly a typo... just so that nobody copies this: it's Theriodonta.

> _Mammaliformes_

I've always seen Mammaliaformes so far. Don't know how good that is
etymologically, though.

> (It's not like the sauropsid half has everything -- it's missing
_Batropetidae_,
> _Bolosauridae_, [...] _Mesenosauridae_, [...] and others.

It's slightly less extreme. :-) Bolosauridae are basal anapsids,
Mesenosauridae is Varanopseidae or suchlike and somewhere in the base of
Synapsida. Forgot what Batropetidae is.

P. S.: Just to make sure, of course I haven't seen any *Dimetropus*
trackway... or almost anything else. :-)