RE: New gliding reptile: Mecistotrachelos

["silvio.renesto" <silvio.renesto@uninsubria.it>]

At 02.00 20/06/2007, you wrote:


> _Longisquama_ isn't mentioned in the 
> description, but an analysis of _Longisquama_ a 
> few years back (Senter, 2004) recovered 
> _Longisquama_ in a group he called the 
> Avicephala, which also includes drepanosaurids 
> and coelurosauravids.  This group lies somewhere 
> near the base of the Diapsida, outside both the 
> archosauromorphs and lepidosauromorphs.

However Senter's character list was based on 
incomplete data on drepanosaurids, its 
integration  and reanalysis nested drepanosaurids 
within the "neodiapsids" possibily close to 
prolacertiforms (Renesto & Binelli 2006).
The pdf of the paper is available here:
http://museoscienze.comune.bergamo.it/pagina.asp?lang=it&a=7&b=1&c=17

just click on the tiny  pdf icon at the bottom of 
the page  below the life restoration...

Cheers,


                                                                            
 Silvio


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