Re: Looking for a recent, comprehensive cladogram.

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: fletche4@TCNJ.EDU
> 
>      This is my first message to the dinosaur mailing list. I just
> signing on yesterday. I am an amateur reasearcher and find I often
> have a hard time finding good information. I am finding it
> particularly hard to find books I don't already own. If anyone knows
> some recent titles, please let me know.  I would also like to
> receive some publications, but can't seem to find anything quite
> specific enough on the shelf of my local bookstores.

You might have some luck on the DML FAQ's book list:
        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/faq/s-lit/books/index.html
or on my own list of dinosaur-book reviews:
        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/books/index.html

>      In particular, right now I am looking for a recent and
> comprehensive cladogram or evolutionary tree for the dinosaurs. I
> believe the most recent ne I have is from the early 1990's and,
> unfortunately, much of my information seems to go out of date quite
> quickly.

Since everyone else seems to be pushing their own sites (:-) I may as
well point you at what's on the DML FAQ at:
        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/faq/s-class/overview/index.html

It's extremely basic -- probably nowhere near enough detailed for you,
but it's intended as a sort of introductory overview to dinosaur
diversity for people just starting to ramp up an interest.  For those
who are beyond that, I'd think that Thomas Holtz's excellent series of
cladograms at
        http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/10415what.htm
and following pages strike the best balance between detail and
exposition/comprehensibility; and Mike Keesey's fine dinosauricon
website does good job of tracking current thought in more detail:
        http://dinosauricon.com/taxa/index.html

(I'll update the FAQ's classification overview to include links to
those two sites.)

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