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From: <dinoboygraphics@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:48 PM
The authors found a monophyletic Lissamphibia, it was just
a lot more inclusive...
<chuckle>
Wait for it. The definition of Lissamphibia submitted to the Companion
Volume has a qualifying clause. Anderson et al. have found Lissamphibia to
self-destruct.
(Having read the paper, the basale commune strikes me as small and
off-position, but I have to have a look at a lot more salamanders. The lack
of palatal fangs is expected from the young age of the specimen -- of all
known *Amphibamus* specimens, only the largest one has them. But these two
points alone are unlikely to overturn the whole tree. Bigger data matrices
are necessary.)