RE: Two New Dinosaurs From New Mexico

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Ekaterina,
     I don't know what new information is to be presented about 
Zuniceratops or if it will favor any particular topology.  The consensus 
seems to be that it is one of three genera (the others being Turanoceratops 
and Montanaceratops) that split off very close to Family Ceratopsidae, but 
apparently one analysis has actually placed Zuniceratops within Ceratopsidae 
(as sister group to Subfamily Ceratopsinae IIRC).
     I am still combining all the non-ceratopsid neoceratopsians (incl. 
Zuniceratops) into a single Family Protoceratopsidae (the only 
semi-paraphyletic family of ornithischians I am currently recognizing).  I 
anticipate that the same three genera (Turanoceratops, Montanaceratops, and 
Zuniceratops) will continue to split off just before the {{Ceratopsidae}} 
marker, but the exact order of their splitting may well change with 
additional information.  But if that one analysis proves correct, we would 
have to actually transfer Zuniceratops into Ceratopsidae.
                 -------Ken
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> From: "ekaterina amalitzkaya" <eamalitz@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: eamalitz@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: Two New Dinosaurs From New Mexico
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:41:24 -0000
>
> The article mentions some new information on Zuniceratops being released.
> Has many new material on it been published ? Or is is this something that 
> is
> going to be published with the new dinos? Is there any certainty regarding
> the phylogenetic position of Zuniceratops in the marginocephalian tree?
>
> Thanks
> EA
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