Re: Pygostylia and Oviraptorosauria

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<Good he didn't explicitely write that, it would be the same as
Therizinosauridae sensu Sereno, 1998: {*Erlikosaurus* > *Ornithomimus*}
and include birds! :-)>

  If he did explicitly write that, it would still have been better than
Sereno's redefinition of Russell and Dong's 1994 formulation,
{*Alxasaurus* <- *Therizinosaurus*, *Nanshiungosaurus*, *Erlikosaurus*,
*Enigmosaurus*, & *Segnosaurus*}. The definitions do not _need_ to be
node-stem triplets. It's neat, nice, but not neccessary.

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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