Re: pterosaur femora sprawl

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

> Do you consider the placement of Chiroptera to be a "done deal" at 
> present?

> From what I understand about LINEs, yes. LINEs are capable of inserting 
twice in the exact same place, but this is extremely improbable and has been 
found to be extremely rare (there were a few papers in Systematic Biology 
about this... some time ago... a year and a half maybe).

Of course, where all the fossils sit on the molecular scaffold is another 
question, and one that, as I keep lamenting, has never been seriously 
examined, if only because a sufficiently large morphological phylogenetic 
analysis would be a PhD thesis all by itself.