Re: Hongshanosaurus houi, new psittacosaur

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

George Olshevsky (Dinogeorge@aol.com) wrote:

<About time. I published this notion way back in MM #2, 1991, and it goes
back at least to Zhao Xijin's infamous Acta Pal Polonica paper of 1983.>

  Whereas it suggests this, the phylogeny does not show this, and the
consideration remains without a published listing or phylogenentic
analysis reflecting this condition in any paper save one. The author of
this "paper" remains in the field, and I would leave it up to him to
discuss this issue if he wants to, but there _is_ a character set that
reflects the position of *Heterodontosaurus* as the sister taxon to
Marginocephalia. This is so far the most explicit treatment of the
relationships following Sereno, 1991.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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