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Re: An even dumber question




From: Aegyptiacus@aol.com
Reply-To: Aegyptiacus@aol.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: An even dumber question
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:19:42 -0400

Pete Bucholz(Tetanurae@aol.com)wrote:

--+--Lepidosauria (incl Komodo Dragons)
  `--+--Crurotarsi (incl Crocodiles)
     `--+--Pterosauria
        |--Scleromochlus
        `--+--Lagerpeton
           `--+--Marasuchus
              `--+--Silesaurus
                 `--+--Saurischia
                    `--Ornithischia

Shouldn't it be:
  |---Lepidosauria (incl Komodo Dragons)
  `-+-Archosauria
    `--+--Crurotarsi (incl Crocodiles)
       `--+--Pterosauria
          |--Scleromochlus
          `--+--Lagerpeton
             `--+--Marasuchus
                `--+--Silesaurus
                   `--+--Saurischia
                      `--Ornithischia

Cheers,
Jean-Michel


No, because the clade you depict as the sister taxon of Archosauria actually is Archosauria.

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