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RE: Gauthier and de Queiroz's Classification of Birds
T. Mike Keesey wrote:
>Yes -- _Avifilopluma_ seems so vague as to be useless to me. As they
>note, it could be anything from a subclade of _Maniraptora_ to a
near->synonym of _Tetanurae_. I'd rather just say "filoplumed theropods" or
>something rather than erect a whole taxon for it....
"'Feathers' refers to hollow-based, filamentous, epidermal appendages
produced by follicles." Those hairy pterosaurs may throw a spanner in the
works. Not to mention the tail of that psittacosaur specimen. (And do the
'parafeathers' of _Longisquama_ count? ;-) )
>They do this as a way of giving _Aves_ as is it used by some researchers
>a new name. (Although I don't really see too many researchers using it
>that way....)
Nor I. I'm still confused.
George Olshevsky wrote:
>I use the name Ornithes for this clade. Better than "Panaves" (which >might
be a good name for an airline) and there's a small chance it has >already
been published somewhere.
Don't know about Panaves. But Ornithes has been published elsewhere, and
the priority is pretty impressive: Aristophanes c.414 BC.
;-)
Tim
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