Re: phytosaurs/parasuchians/PJ Crush

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

David Peters (davidrpeters@earthlink.net) wrote:

<Walker suggested that phytosaurs and proterochampsids were sister taxa. A
short cladistic analysis indicates it might be true. Any stoppers? (?that
is, any reason not to associate the two clades?)>

  A lot of Walker's views on archosauromorph phylogeny were erroneous,
that's maybe one reason to question his supportive features. Another ... a
short cladistic analysis. Try something bigger. A few hundred taxa, a few
hundred to a thousand characters. Lots of variation in Archosauromorpha,
and lots of convergence.

  Cheers,

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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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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