Re: Broader than Dinosauria

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 01:01:05 
> From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>
> 
> I would like to have a highly significant skull character as well,
> but "vomeral extension" sounds rather nebulous (although if it could
> be quantified, perhaps it could be shown to be significant).

Ken,

It is quantified as ``enlongate vomers that reach caudally at least to
the level of the antorbital fenestra'' (Gauthier 1986).

> I did not include Lagerpetonidae, Lagosuchidae, or Plesion
> Pseudolagosuchus in the Theropoda, but rather as basal clades of
> Saurischiformes.

Is this "Saurischiformes" stuff really helpful?

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