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Ornithodiran phylogeny - a graphical approach



Renato Santos writes:
 > http://www.maj.com/gallery/Dracontes/TradDigi/ornithodira_cladogram_2.png

It's funny how ubiquitous the name _Giraffatitan_ is on the Internet.
As far as I know, it's _never_ been used in the literature since
Paul's (1988) erection of the name as a subgenus and Olshevsky's
(1991) raising of that name to generic level.

In fact, it may even be that it's _never_ been used in peer-reviewed
literature, since Olshevsky (1991) was self-published and not AFAIK
reviewed, and I can't find anything in the Acknowledgements of Paul
(1988) thanking reviewers.

Yet the name lives on.

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