Re: New alligatoroid paper as example for amateur cladists

[Philidor11@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/5/99 2:51:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU writes:

<< The author concludes that he has found certain taxa to be monophyletic, 
yet these taxa were defined as monophyletic taxa. I may have missed a 
sentence or two explaining this. >>

I think you did.  The word 'yet' implies a contrast, but I don't see one.  If 
you substitute the word 'and' then you have an a=a observation.  I follow 
your subsequent definition of monophyletic taxa among dinosaurs, but I can't 
connect it back to this observation.  My best guess at the moment is that you 
mean different classification approaches lead to the same result, but I would 
like to be sure.
Thanks!