Re: Benton et al.'s Supertree

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/17/02 2:40:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mike@tecc.co.uk writes:


> Caudipteryx is a basal member of
>     Paraves: it is excluded from both Oviraptorosauria (contra
>     Sereno 1999) and Avialae (contra Ji et al. 1998), while
>     Metornithes is monophyletic and contains Ornithothoraces,
>     Avimimus (Chatterjee 1991; contra Holtz 1994) and
>     Alvarezsauridae (Chiappe et al. 1996; contra Sereno 1999).
>
> So mostly, these seem to be pretty much the standard interpretations,
> with the exception maybe of megalosaurs being closer to tetanurans
> than to spinosaurs; 


I don't know.  A non-oviraptorosaurian _Caudipteryx_ is pretty odd these days.

--Nick P.