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From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@indexdata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:48 PM
Longisquama ... uh. Not sure what's going on here: was George saying
that it's more closely related to classic theropods than sauropods
are?
Yes, because it supposedly had a furcula. (Cladistics with one character.)
The bone in question is more parsimoniously interpreted as an interclavicle.
BTW, the phytodinosaurs were supposed to have had arboreal but not volant
ancestors.