Re: noasaurids strikes back

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
> > However, noasaurids differ from velocisaurids in having
> > a specialized raptorial ungueal structure.
> 
> What if this is an autapomorphy of a clade within Velocisauridae ( = of
> *Noasaurus* itself)?

_Noasaurus_ can't be a velocisaurid -- Noasauridae has priority, at least by
ICZN rules. (CMIIW)

_Noasauridae_ was defined as Clade(_Noasaurus_ <- _Carnotaurus_) in Wilson et
al. 2003 (the _Rajasaurus_ paper). _Masiakasaurus_ and _Deltadromeus_ are shown
on the cladogram as noasaurids.

If a new grouping is being proposed to include _Masiakasaurus_ and
_Velocisaurus_, but not _Noasaurus_, it seems to me Velocisaurinae would be a
better name for it, with Noasaurinae its sister group. (Or perhaps I'm just
being old-fashioned....)

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