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Re: An even dumber question

> Shouldn't it be:
>   |---Lepidosauria (incl Komodo Dragons)
>   `-+-Archosauria
>     `--+--Crurotarsi (incl Crocodiles)
>        `--+--Pterosauria
>           |--Scleromochlus
>           `--+--Lagerpeton
>              `--+--Marasuchus
>                 `--+--Silesaurus
>                    `--+--Saurischia
>                       `--Ornithischia

Well... Archosauria includes Crurotarsi and Dinosauria, so in the
(meanwhile) usual way to write cladograms, that would be

|--Lepidosauria
`--Archosauria
     |--Crurotarsi
     `--+...

Nobody forces us to label every node, if that's what you mean.