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Re: Feduccia on MANIAC

SeanSt8579@aol.com wrote-

> Okay, I believe you. ;) I would really love to see that phylogeny, because
it
> sounds nothing like what he actually wrote in the article.

Olshevsky's Omni phylogeny is-

|--Mesenosaurus
`--+--aquatic archosaurs
   `--+--+==thecodonts
      |  `--Crocodilia
      `--+--Pterosauria
         `--+--Cosesaurus
            `--+--+--Sauropoda
               |  `--+--Prosauropoda
               |     `--+--Segnosauria
               |        |--unarmored Ornithischia
               |        `--armored Ornithischa
               `--+--Megalancosaurus
                  `--+--primitive Dinosauria
                     |--Longisquama
                     |--+==ceratosaurs
                     |  |--Spinosauridae
                     |  `--Abelisauria
                     `--+--Eustreptospondylidae
                        `--+--Allosauridae
                           `--+--+--Archaeopteryx
                              |  |--Dromaeosauridae
                              |  `--Enantiornithes
                              `--+--Oviraptorosauria
                                 `--+--Avimimus
                                    `--+--+--Compsognathus
                                       |  `--advanced theropod groups
                                       `--+--Mononykus
                                          `--+--primitive Carinatae
                                             `--Neornithes

Somewhere around thecodonts, the stem lineage becomes climbing.  Somewhere
around eustreptospondylids it becomes gliding, and around Archaeopteryx it
becomes flying.

Mickey Mortimer