Re: Ceratops (was RE: Glishades ericksoni, ...)

["T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:
>
> It depends on what the agreed upon definition of Ceratopsidae is to be. If
> it is (for example) Centrosaurus + Chasmosaurus, than Ceratops might well
> be a non-ceratopsid. If instead Ceratopsidae is defined as Ceratops +
> Centrosaurus + Chasmosaurus, than it would be included by definition, but
> might be outside Chasmosaurus > Centrosaurus and Centrosaurus >
> Chasmosaurus.

Probably the best solution, since both relevant nomenclatural codes
(ICZN and the draft PhyloCode) require Ceratops montanus to be within
Ceratopsidae by definition. It does have one little drawback, and
that's that it potentially leaves Clade(Centrosaurus + Chasmosaurus)
without a name.

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