Re: DINOSAUR STATISTICS re: Silesaurus

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Jaime Headden wrote:
<<I wonder, then, if anyone should like to try to run *Silesaurus* in a
matrix including many archosauriforms, and test by excluding dinosaurs as
a possible OTU?>>

Benton's 1999 matrix included many crurotarsian archosaurs, and _Silesaurus_ 
still came out very close to Dinosauria.  There are a lot of features in the 
hind limb that link it with dinosaurs, but like I said before, it seems to fall 
outside of Dinosauria using these published matrices.

Just for everyone's information, the trees are as follows:

Sereno & Arcucci 1994
2 mpt's, 20 steps
|--Crurotarsi
`--+--Pterosauria
   |--Lagerpeton
   `--+--Silesaurus
      `--+--Marasuchus
         `--+--Herrerasaurus
            |--Coelophysis
            `--+--Plateosaurus
               `--Lesothosaurus

Novas 1996-
1 mpt, 47 steps
|--Crurotarsi
`--+--+--Scleromochlus
   |  `--Pterosauria
   `--+--Lagerpeton
      `--+--Marasuchus
         `--+--Pseudolagosuchus
            `--+--Silesaurus
               `--+--Saurischia
                  `--Ornithischia

composite
1 mpt, 61 steps
|--Crurotarsi
`--+--Pterosauria
   `--+--Lagerpeton
      `--+--Marasuchus
         `--+--Silesaurus
            `--+--Saurischia
               `--Ornithischia

Benton 1999-
--+--Euparkeria
  `--+--Proterochampsidae
     `--+--+--Phytosauridae
        |  `--+--Stagonolepididae
        |     `--+--Crocodylomorpha
        |        `--+--Ornithosuchidae
        |           `--+--Prestosuchidae
        |              `--Postosuchus
        `--+--Scleromochlus
           `--+--Pterosauria
              `--+--Lagerpeton
                 `--+--Marasuchus
                    `--+--Silesaurus
                       `--+--Ornithischia
                          `--+--Sauropodomorpha
                             `--+--Herrerasaurus
                                `--Theropoda

Peter Buchholz
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