Re: Senter 2004 - Renesto and Binelli 2005 (very short)

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

Foreword: my computer keyboard is defective, so, 
apologies  in advance for any typo that will 
escape my eye-checking of the e-mail.

> I only wish to point out that the aim of Renesto 
> and Binelli (2005) was mainly the description of 
> Vallesaurus and secondarily to show how 
> even  with Senter matrix (just a little updated 
> and corrected of some flaws) the nesting of 
> drepanosaurids within coelurosauravids was not 
> so well founded, and just a little integration 
> moved the whole group again within 
> Arcosauromorpha. The same may well apply to 
> Longisquama, but having not seen the specimen we 
> did not apply any correction to the data matrix 
> of Senter  for that taxon, this is the only 
> reason why it was left where it was. I am also 
> pretty aware that our matrix (as well as 
> Senter's one) excludes too many taxa to be 
> consistent for a reliable phlylogeny of  crown 
> group Diapsida. Or even of the Drepanosauridae.

When the preparation of another of these tiny 
critters I have currently under study  will be 
completed (not too long to wait, I sincerely 
hope) , perhaps I will have the chance to say 
something more reliable and make a more extensive and in depth analysis.

Best,


                                                                          
Silvio













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