Re: Taxon Search

[Michael Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

Jaime Headden wrote-

> <However, I have issues with which clades are presented as "active".  It's
> basically the clades Sereno uses.  So Tyrannoraptora is active, despite 
> having
> an uncertain content (does it include compsognathids? Ornitholestes?
> arctometatarsalians?)>
>
> This may not be of any relevance on the issue of active versus non-active.

Except that he uses uncertain content as a reason to make some clades 
inactive, like Galton and Upchurch's (2004) Anchisauria.  So it's a 
double-standard.

>   Sereno, P. C. 2005. The logical basis of phylogenetic taxonomy.
>    _Systematic Biology_ 54:595-619.

I have it.  I haven't read it yet, but I doubt I'll agree with some parts 
(like not using eponymous specifiers, which Sereno still refuses to do a 
lot).

Mickey Mortimer