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Re: Synapsids and Basal Reptiles (was: Re: Elvis, Sue, and a guy

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Subject: Re: Synapsids and Basal Reptiles (was: Re: Elvis, Sue, and a guy
From: Gautam Majumdar <gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:00:16 +0100
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Pieter.Depuydt@rug.ac.be wrote
>
>'Euryapsid' (an obsolete taxon which included nothosaurs, 
>plesiosaurs, placodonts etc...) on the basis of the morphology of the 
>temporal fenestrae. 

Is Euryapsida obsolete ? It is given in M J Benton's Vertebrate Palaeontology
(1997) as a monophylatic clade (page 149, Fig.6.6) with a list of diagnostic
features.

Gautam Majumdar                 gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk

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