Nigersaurus: the complete picture

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. writes:
 > * With the topology Rebbachisauridae + (Dicraeosauridae + Diplodocidae), a
 > low-browsing short-necked morph is the ancestral condition for
 > Diplodocoidea.

Er.  Why would we assume that this was evolved in basal diplodocoids
and then lost in flagellicaudatans, rather than that it is apopmorphic
for rebbachisaurids (or indeed just for Nigersaurus)?

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