Re: Pneumaticity in Triassic pterosaurs

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Interesting that they didn't even test the other option.

You are sadly mistaken about the "even" part, and therefore about the 
"interesting" one, too.

Making a reasonably complete phylogenetic analysis of Archosauromorpha --  
no, of the diapsid crown-group, because you say pterosaurs are 
lepidosauromorphs -- no, of Diapsida as a whole, because the contents of the 
crown-group are very uncertain; not only do the euryapsids and the 
ichthyosaurs jump in and out all the time, so do others according to a 
couple of talks at last year's SVP meeting -- no, of _Amniota_ as a whole, 
because the turtles jump in and out of Diapsida, is not something you can 
whip together in an afternoon, or even in three months. It's enough work for 
a large chapter in a PhD thesis (...mine, to be exact).

I've been telling you this for years now. The funny thing is, you never even 
voiced any explicit disagreement; you never wrote "you're wrong, it actually 
is easy"; you just shut up, and then a few weeks or months later you simply 
act again as if phylogenetics were like playing Minesweeper.