Sauropod Reference

[Adam Yates <zooamy@zoo.latrobe.edu.au>]

While browsing our library this morning I happened upon a large detailed 
pare on the phylogeny and biogeography of sauropods in the latest issue 
of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Since no-one 
has mentioned this work I thought I would give the reference to the list. 
I havent had a chance to fully digest it yet as it is exam time and utterly 
impossible to get within ten metres of a photocopier, consequently I 
couldn't make a copy to read at my leisure. It does employ  some 
characters I had noticed from drawings and fossils that I haven't seen 
mentioned in the literature before (it's great to feel that your 
observations are worthwhile). However the phylogeny was not as I would 
have expected, supporting the traditional camarasaur-brachiosaur and 
titanosaur-diplodicid split (with the Euhelopodids as an outgroup). 
Opisthocoelocaudia is the sister group of Titanosauridae (a position I 
have come to accept after re-examining the literature over the last month).
The reference is:
Upchurch, P. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Phil. 
Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 349, 365-390.

Cheers,
Adam Yates