[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]
Re: New Hadrosauroid and Titanosaur from Mazongshan area
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my desperate, frothing-at-the-mouth
plea for information concerning Norman's latest work. Especially notable are
those who tried to sneak large files past UT's 5 MB e-mail limit!
For anyone who hasn't read it: the paper is certainly a wonderful continuation
of Norman's fine work on iguanodontid-grade ornithopods. I would recommend the
paper as general "outside reading" for any and all archosaur workers.
I was pleasantly surprised (despite warnings) to see an actual, coded data
matrix at the end of the paper! .pdf documents make it fairly easy to drop a
matrix into a Nexus file for processing... doing so with Norman's gives
interesting results. I'd rather not comment extensively right now, because I
have been getting a long string of "interesting" results from a variety of
matrices, so much so that I have even questioned the accuracy of the latest
beta of PAUP. Anyway, Norman does get a very interesting result for the "true
hadrosaurids": ((Saurolophus,(Brachylophosaurus, Edmontosaurus)),
(Corythosaurus, Parasaurolophus)).
Anyway, thanks again to everyone!
Wagner