Re: Dinosauricon Phylogeny: in progress

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:
> 
> I hope that when this goes into the live site, it will be presented in
> the form of the very useful ASCII-cladogram format that the old
> Dinosauricon introduced?  Much easier to make sense of than the
> intented bullet-lists.  (For your April Fool joke, you could have
> claimed that you were going to use the Kinman System :-)

Eventually I'll have a much nicer graphical representation. I don't think I am
going to be using the ASCII diagrams.

> Eh, but hang on, what's your definition of a "type species"?  Because
> whatever you choose as being a type species induces a genus-clade
> under your provisional "genus" concept.  It seems to me that you could
> just has well have chosen to say "_excelsus_ is not a type species,
> therefore we have no genus Brontosaurus".

The ICZN covers what is and isn't a type species.


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