Re: Mini Coelurosauria Analysis

[Steven Mahon <floridamahon@yahoo.com>]

--- Nicholas Gardner <ratites637@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It is important to note that because PHYLIP is a
> package which program you 
> used.  Could you post on-list as to what program you
> used? Pars? Penny?

MIX
 
> Could you post your infile on-list?

Uuummmm.... I don't have it anymore....:-(
 
> Is Tyrannosaurus your first OTU in the infile? If
> so, it's falling to the 
> base because it is the outgroup.

Caught that & fixed it. It is now:

Neotetanurae
|--Allosaurus
`--Coelurosauria
   |--Ornitholestes
   `--+--Compsognathus
      `--Tyrannoraptora
         |--T-rex
         `--Maniraptoriformes
            |--Arctometatarsalia
            |  |--Mononykus
            |  `--Ornothomimus
            `--Maniraptora
               |--Oviraptorosauria
               |  |--Therizinosaurus
               |  `--+--Avimimus
               |     `--+--Oviraptor
               |        `--Chirostenotes
               `--Paraves
                  |--Deinonychosauria
                  |  |--Velociraptor
                  |  `--Troodon
                  `--Avialae
                     |--Passer
                     `--Archaeopteryx

> What did you code Oviraptor on? The holotype or the
> material referred to 
> Citipati?

I didnt use 2 taxa that were from the same family, so
I guess I coded it by family traits.

> Also, you need to have more basal taxa.  Don't use
> such derived ones all by 
> themselves.  It's not the late 80s to mid 90s
> anymore! -_^

Okie dokie.

      Thanks, 
        Steven Mahon

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