Geographic cladogram of pterosaurs
So many pterosaurs come from so few places.
And those places are spread around the world. So, here (Fig. 1) is the large pterosaur tree (LPT, 239 taxa) with color boxes surrounding Solnhofen, Chinese, North American, South American and other geographic areas where they are found.
As before,
the traditional clades ‘Pterodactyloidea’ and ‘Monofenestrata‘ become polyphyletic when traditionally omitted taxa are included. Here (Fig. 1) four clades achieve the pterodactyloid-grade by convergence. Other pterosaur workers (all PhDs) omit or refuse to include most of these taxa, leading to false positives for the tree topologies they recover. Moreover, none recognize, nor cite literature for, the validated outgroup members for the Pterosauria (Fig. 1) preferring to imagine pterosaurs arising from unidentified and/or invalidated archosaurs or archosauriforms. Here we get to peak beneath the curtain.
References
Peters D 2000a. Description and Interpretation of Interphalangeal Lines in Tetrapods. Ichnos 7:11-41.
Peters D 2000b. A Redescription of Four Prolacertiform Genera and Implications for Pterosaur Phylogenesis. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 106 (3): 293–336.
Peters D 2007. The origin and radiation of the Pterosauria. In D. Hone ed. Flugsaurier. The Wellnhofer pterosaur meeting, 2007, Munich, Germany. p. 27.
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