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Re: Hwang et al. dataset runs

Mickey Mortimer wrote: 
Looks like we found the problem.


Yep! :-D

Yup, referring to IGM 100/42. Conchoraptor was a bit trickier to justify
including, as it was only mentioned in the appendix of PDW. Of course, ZPAL
MgD-I/95 (which Paul illustrates as Ingenia yanshini, if I recall) is
probably close to Conchoraptor. Oh, I kept Sinraptor as an outgroup too,
though it wasn't known in 1988.


Really, if one was to make an analysis only including P.D.W. taxa, GI 100/44 (troodontid) should be included too! :-D



Try "contree" for the consensus tree.


Already did that. :-)

Should be easy enough, but I find making my own analyses more useful than
adding to others'.


True, but sometimes it is interesting to see what one can produce using others analyses and then limiting certain things (like taxa or characters).


Presumedly Adasaurus clades with some even more exclusive dromaeosaurid
group in that tree, based on pelvic or pedal characters.  Thus it is inside
the dromaeosaurid clade diagnosed by the cranial characters you listed.
Adasaurus might actually include braincase material, BTW, although the AMNH
team hasn't coded it for anything except what's been published.


Well, it's outside of the clade including _Saurornitholestes_, _Velociraptor_, and _Deinonychus_, but excluding _Dromaeosaurus_, it's pretty odd. Could it because the analysis is run in ACCTRAN? I really don't know myself. :-(

Nick Gardner

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