Re: something's wrong here: Qianosuchus phylogeny

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

David Marjanovic writes:
 > No, my friend. No. The most recent common ancestor of pterosaurs
 > and scleromochlids was, by definition, not a scleromochlid. (It
 > wasn't a pterosaur either.)

Really?  What is the reason for knowing a priori that scleromochlids
could not possibly be paraphyletic with respect to pterosaurs?

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