Comments on Chinleana: Kyrgyzsaurus, a new Drepanosaur from the Triassic ...

Actually illustrating a cladogram is more than I e...

2011-12-07T20:24:49.688-07:00

Actually illustrating a cladogram is more than I expected from Paleontological Journal. It'd be funny if this were a second Longisquama, since it's from the same formation, is known from the same area of the skeleton, and Longisquama may be related to simiosaurs. As with Parker, I look forward to Spindler et al.'s new paper.

I look forward to your publication.

2011-12-06T21:46:55.155-07:00

I look forward to your publication.

We have just illustrated some results that do not ...

2011-12-06T12:44:59.245-07:00

We have just illustrated some results that do not totally fit the paper.: Spindler, F., Buchwitz, M., Fischer, J. & Voigt, S. (2011): Preservation of tetrapod skin in the Triassic Madygen Formation. – Beiträge zu Paläontologie (82. Jahrestagung Pal. Ges.), 76-77. [Poster abstract]
Now we prepare a publication on that fossil. The German team seems to be forgotten. But we don't think Kyrgyzsaurus to be drepanosaurid. Wait a little while ...

They have a figure using the cladogram of Renesto ...

2011-12-06T08:18:13.922-07:00

They have a figure using the cladogram of Renesto and Binelli (2006) showing the new taxa as sister taxon to all other drepanosaurs. However, there is no stated methodology or matrix suggesting that they just placed this taxon in this position in the figure based on their interpretation of the 'primitive' nature of its characteristics.

Bill Parker

I don't suppose the authors added Kyrgyzsaurus...

2011-12-06T01:13:19.232-07:00

I don't suppose the authors added Kyrgyzsaurus to any cladistic analyses to see what effect this apparently most basal simiosaur has on their controversial phylogenetic position?