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Re: Unnamed groups

>From: Warren Raddatz <wraddatz@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
 > Hello,
 >         I asked this a few days ago and have recieved no answers so am
 > re-asking. What is an "unnamed group". There are many on the cladograms in
 > The Dinosauria with descriptions of them but no reason as to why they are
 > unnamed. Are they just suposition, unpublished or disputed? Thanks in 
 > advance.
 >                         -Jen
Usually this means the group is not thought to be worth naming.
A common reason for this is that the node is only weakly supported
in the cladogram.

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