RE: Koreanosaurus, new burrowing ornithopod [Meta]

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

why does it keep switching back to Rich Text?
 
 > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:00:24 -0700> From: tijawi@yahoo.com> To: 
 > dinosaur@usc.edu> 
CC: tijawi@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Koreanosaurus, new burrowing ornithopod 
[Meta]
 
 > Note that although the _Koreanosaurus_ paper includes a cladogram, the 
 > relationships of this taxon were never actually tested. As the authors put 
 > it: "_Koreanosaurus was simply placed by hand on this cladogramme [sic], on 
 > the base of the characters that can directly be observed on the 
 > _Koreanosaurus_ material at hand." IMHO, this approach should not be 
 > encouraged, because the figured cladogram gives the misleading impression 
 > that a sister-taxon relationship was recovered between _Orodromeus_ and 
 > _Koreanosaurus_. 
 
 so....they can't say "based on what we have, this is who we think are related 
to _Koreanosaurus_" ?
 
 yes, I know it would be best to find a dozen full and complete skeletons of 
_Koreanosaurus_. but -
 
 if nobody ever finds any more _Koreanosaurus_es than this, wouldn't that mean 
that we can't figure them into cladograms, because there wasn't enough material 
to begin with?