Re: [dinosaur] Brittagnathus, new tetrapod from Devonian of Greenland (free pdf)

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

> > [...] A phylogenetic analysis places Brittagnathus crownward to other 
> > Devonian tetrapods, adjacent to the Tournaisian genus Pederpes. Together 
> > with other recent discoveries, it suggests that diversification of 
> > âCarboniferous-gradeâ tetrapods had already begun before the end of the 
> > Devonian and that the group was not greatly affected by the end-Devonian 
> > mass extinction.

Yup. I haven't run an actual analysis yet, but putting Brittagnathus into the 
current version of my matrix and playing around with the tree in Mesquite finds 
it either as a whatcheeriid (the sister-group to all others: Whatcheeria, 
Pederpes, Ossinodus) or one node closer to us and the dinosaurs.