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Re: Pterosaurs as basal archosauriforms
> Bennett uses an outdated analysis, unfairly eliminates most characters
> supporting avemetatarsalian pterosaurs, doesn't include the best
> candidates for non-archosaurian pterosaurs, and espouses a horrible,
> subjective cladistic philosophy.
The methodology of this study should be applied to Nesbitt's (2011)
large study of archosaur phylogeny, with the addition of some few
non-archosauriform archosauromorphs, to test whether or not the same
pattern emerges.
Cheers,
Augusto.