RE: Allosauroid cladogram

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> T. Michael Keesey
>
> --- Mickey Mortimer wrote:
> > Neovenator may be a sister group to carcharodontosaurids (eg. 
> Holtz, 2001;
> > Rauhut, 2000; Hutt, 1999)
> 
> --- Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> [...]
> > a Carcharodontosauridae-Neovenator clade.
> 
> If _Neovenator_ shares more recent ancestry with 
> _Carcharodontosaurus_ than
> with _Allosaurus_, _Sinraptor_, _Monolophosaurus_, or 
> _Cryolophosaurus_, then,
> unless I'm mistaken, it *is* a carcharodontosaurid (sensu Sereno).

Correct!!  I was simply using the OTU names as Rauhut did.

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