Re: Dino Birds (was Re: Dinosaur = extinct animal)

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 03:08 PM 7/12/99 -0400, Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>"Nontyrannosauria." But if A is the monophyletic Dinosauria and B is the 
>monophyletic Avialae, then there certainly is great utility in retaining a 
>taxon A-B for "nonavian dinosaurs." Taxonomies have other uses than merely 
>being phylogenetic mirrors.

Indeed, it seems almost wasteful to so restrict taxonomies, since a
cladogram provides a better phylogenetic mirror than any classification,
even a cladistic one.  This, in order to provide some added value, the
classification needs to do something other than merely mirror the phylogeny.

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