Re: What is Saltopus?

["Mickey Mortimer" <mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com>]

George Olshevsky wrote-

> How is this a synapomorphy of Ornithodira when any >flying< bird blows
this
> 50% ratio away?

The same way it can be a synapomorphy if sauropods, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs,
etc. all have higher than a 50% ratio.  It's most parsimonious to think it
reversed several times, but is still usefull for determining relationships
among basal members.

Mickey Mortimer