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Re: Defining Ornithischia 2

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Defining Ornithischia 2
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:08:37 +0200
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could it be that a clade could turn out to be paraphyletic?

The definition of "clade" is "an ancestor and all of its descendants". You can see why "clade", "monophylum", and "monophyletic taxon" are synonyms.

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