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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:39:56 -0400
From: Kevin de Queiroz <Dequeiroz.Kevin@NMNH.SI.EDU>
To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at, PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: eumaniraptoran systematics
I think we're ignoring, if not deliberatly avoiding, the issue of whether = species are "typical" representatives of clades. =20 >>> David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> - 4/30/02 9:41 AM >>> > Using Vultur gryphus is a tribute to Linnaeus (it's the first bird in = his list). > > Kevin de Queiroz I know... but I think Linnaeus didn't mean anything specific by putting an animal into a certain place in his lists. The book begins with *Homo sapiens*, hardly a very typical mammal. (And I don't know why he made *Vultur gryphus* the type species, respectively the first listed one, of *Vultur*...)