From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mightyodinn@yahoo.com
To: Mailing List - Dinosaur <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: noasaurids strikes back
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT)
--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
> > However, noasaurids differ from velocisaurids in having
> > a specialized raptorial ungueal structure.
>
> What if this is an autapomorphy of a clade within Velocisauridae ( = of
> *Noasaurus* itself)?
_Noasaurus_ can't be a velocisaurid -- Noasauridae has priority, at least
by
ICZN rules. (CMIIW)
_Noasauridae_ was defined as Clade(_Noasaurus_ <- _Carnotaurus_) in Wilson
et
al. 2003 (the _Rajasaurus_ paper). _Masiakasaurus_ and _Deltadromeus_ are
shown
on the cladogram as noasaurids.
If a new grouping is being proposed to include _Masiakasaurus_ and
_Velocisaurus_, but not _Noasaurus_, it seems to me Velocisaurinae would be
a
better name for it, with Noasaurinae its sister group. (Or perhaps I'm just
being old-fashioned....)
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