Re: Reflexiónes de SVP 2000

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to Dick Peirce (and Mary Kirkaldy) for the list of SVP highlights 
(and to the other attendees who have posted their perspectives).  A lot of 
the stuff gets my heart pounding - like those 2 new oviraptorids...).

This also spiked my interest... (Even little _Leptoceratops_ is a 
ceratopsoid ...?  Or is it a non-protoceratopsid, non-ceratopsoid basal 
ceratopsian?)

> You & Dodson (Peter speaking) propose a new cladogram for the basal 
> >ceratopsians: the Protoceratopsidae are restricted to Asia, while the 
> >Ceratopsoidea (which includes the large ceratopsids) are restricted to 
> >No. America. ...

I'm looking forward to seeing what impact _Avaceratops_ (based on the "new" 
referred specimen) and _Zuniceratops_ will have on ceratopsian phylogeny.


Tim

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Dr Timothy J. Williams

USDA/ARS Researcher
Agronomy Hall
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50014

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