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Re: synapsids (was RE: pdf request)
If you visit David Peters' website, he has his own mega-cladogram that
apparently includes more reptile taxa than any other. I believe he includes the
synapsida as the sister of Archosauromorpha. Could synapsids and diapsids be
sister taxa, a clade excluding parareptiles, or even other reptiles? I don't
know a lot about Paleozoic diapsids, but I hope someone else does.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>
To: archosauromorph2@hotmail.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:08:49 AM
Subject: RE: synapsids (was RE: pdf request)
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
> On Behalf Of Brad McFeeters
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:50 AM
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> Subject: synapsids (was RE: pdf request)
>
>
> If a synapsid condition really is primitive for amniotes, is
> there any chance that some animals presently classified as
> basal synapsids are actually closer to sauropsids, or basal
> to the sauropsid-synapsid split?
>
Extremely unlikely for the "classic" synapsids. Despite the fact the clade's
name comes from a single character state, it is
supported by a number of derived characters from various parts of the skeleton.
That said, it has been occasionally suggested that Diadectes is a basal
synapsid, although the majority of studies place it outside
crown-group amniotes.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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