Re: [dinosaur] Chinlechelys (Triassic turtle) morphology and pareiasaur origin of turtles (free pdf)

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

> And at least superficially, the Casea-Eunotosaurus skull comparison in Fig. 
> 27 is convincing.

Hardly, because â perhaps for reasons of copyright-related laziness â all 
three reconstructions in that figure date from the mid-20th century or earlier 
and thus ignore all the more recent research â the paper cites all of the 
more recent studies of Eunotosaurus and some on caseids.

Also, you can't do phylogenetics with three taxa. There is only one unrooted 
tree for three terminals. You need at least four terminal taxa. The 
phylogenetic analyses are much more important in that respect than fig. 27 
(...though how they managed to get the two added caseids to come out so far 
from the Caseidae OTU certainly warrants a closer look).