Re: Coelurosauria

[Jamie Stearns <stearns5@cox.net>]

> Just one question: Is this really a cladogram? I mean: the outcome of a 
> cladistic analysis? Did you compile a data matrix and feed it into a 
> computer program like PAUP* or NONA or TNT? Or are you just showing us 
> your opinion based on what you have read (here and elsewhere)?

I wish I was using some kind of cladistics program, but this was
mostly put together by reading various analyses and descriptions, looking
over photographs and drawings of skeletal material, and then putting taxa
where they appeared to fit best. Basically, a lot of educated guessing on my 
part, and I know I probably messed up a few times. As for the alvarezsaurs, 
I included them mostly to be thorough, and I really don't know where they 
should fit (well, a lot of people don't). Perhaps I should have just left 
them out.

So, my apologies for making it seem more than what it was.

-Jamie Stearns