[Fwd: Re: PROBLEMS WITH WEISHAMPEL _ET_ HEINRICH'S HYPSILOPHODONT PAPER]

[dis@gj.net]

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• To: Tetanurae@aol.com
• Subject: Re: PROBLEMS WITH WEISHAMPEL _ET_ HEINRICH'S HYPSILOPHODONT PAPER
• From: dis@gj.net
• Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:35:44 -0600
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• Organization: Dinamation International Society
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Tetanurae@aol.com wrote:
 
> Weishampel, D B, and Heinrich, R E.  1992.  Systematics of Hypsilophodontidae
> and Basal Iguanodontia (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda).  Historical Biology 6:
> 159-184.
> 
> And after going through it quite a few times, I am utterly amazed at the weak
> support for most of their conclusions of systematics within the
> Hypsilophodontidae. 

Rod Sheetz of the Mus. of West. Colo. is completing a Ph.D. under Jack 
Horner and has concluded that hyplilophodontids are a grade and not a 
clade.
  Anyways, does anyone have any comments on my critique?  And does
> anyone know what a cingulum is?

A cingulum is a a ridge or swelling arown the base of the enamel crown 
of the tooth.

Jim K.

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