Re: Oldest Footprints Identified

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > Diadectids [...]
>
> They might be Amniota(= Reptilia)after all.
>
> Add enough taxa into the matrix and that's how they pop out. Close to 
> Procolophonids, Pareiasaurs, Lanthanosuchids, Solendonsaurus, etc. etc. I 
> wish the truth were more like the textbooks and experts say. But when you 
> test it, it's not.

*Solenodonsaurus* is supposed to be close by, but the procolophonoids & 
friends have not been suspected to be close since the 1950s, and those 
hypotheses were, you know, cladistics with one character.

> Do the test yourself.

I will, as part of my thesis. See you again in 2 or 3 years...

> Any characters or character coding will do.

Highly unlikely.