Re: Feduccia on MANIAC

[SeanSt8579@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/04 12:36:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mickey_mortimer111@msn.com writes:

<< Nah, BCF isn't MANIAC.  Olshevsky includes some basal dinosauromorphs in 
 Dinosauria, and actually excludes sauropods and maybe some basal 
 sauropodomorphs, but Aves is inside Maniraptora, which is still inside 
 Dinosauria.  Olshevsky just calls his hypothetical backbone of small 
 arboreal/scansorial quadrupedal archosauromorphs "birds". >>

I havent seen any sort of actual phylogeny (I only had access to the text of 
the Omni article, but I see there is supposed to be a diagram), but I remember 
it suggesting something like, 

-Aves was derived from the sorts of "avimorphs" Feduccia et al love, 
Longisquama and Megalancosaurus as examples

-there was a monophyletic "herbivore" radiation, composed of ornithischians 
and sauropods from that avian stock and

-theropod lineages represent independent flightless radiations from 
increasingly derived birdies.

Are there other papers he's written on it that spell it out better?

-Sean