Re: Centrosaurinae

[Denver Fowler <df9465@yahoo.co.uk>]

Cladistic analysis of non-saurischia! I'm sure that's
some sort of heresy... why would anyone possibly want
to do such a thing?

but seriously... ceratopsian cladistic analyses are a
bit thin on the ground. Your best bet is Dodson et al,
in the new Dinosauria.

A good consensus of this (but more general) is
mentioned briefly in:

Chinnery, BJ.. (2004) Morphometric analysis of
evolutionary trends in the ceratopsian postcranial
skeleton. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):
591-609.

going further back (but maybe more useful), also see:

Sampson SD. 1995a. Two new horned dinosaurs from the
Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine
Formation of Montana; with a phylogenetic analysis of
the Centrosaurinae (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae).
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(4): 743?760.

And most recently, but increasingly distantly:

SVP2005:
THE PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE
ORNITHISCHIAN
DINOSAURS
BUTLER, Richard, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United
Kingdom
Few analyses have tested the global phylogeny of
Ornithischia. 

But there isn't that much really...

Denver. 


        
        
                
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