RE: Megalancosaurus, Longisquama & other oddballs

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Thomas Holtz wrote:
> Sad to say, it will not be out during 2001.  (One of his big tasks this 
> summer is to get a publishable version done).
      I take it Merck's paper will a major in-depth analysis for 
archosauromorphs, comparable to Sereno's 1991 Memoir on Basal Archosaurs.   
Is he considering possibly including turtles in his analysis?

> Where the problem does seem to lie is with pterosaurs, as the evidence does 
> seem to be mounting for a more primitive archosauriform position for those 
> guys.
      Don't you mean a more primitive "archosauromorph" position?  And 
either way, the question is whether taxon Ornithodira will be abandoned or 
will become much more inclusive (perhaps more so than Archosauriformes).
                     ------Ken

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