Project 493: S. J. Nesbitt, C. A. Sidor, R. B. Irmis, K. D. Angeilczyk, R. M. H. Smith, L. A. Tsuji. 2010. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature. 464 (4):95-98.
Specimen: † Asilisaurus kongwe (unvouchered)

Abstract

The phylogenetic analysis comprises 34 taxa and 290 characters. At least one of the authors personally observed nearly all of the taxa. Erythrosuchus was constrained as the outgroup, and ingroup taxa included a variety of pseudosuchians, pterosaurs, basal dinosauromorphs, and dinosaurs. Specimen numbers or literature sources for each taxon are reported in Table S1 of Nesbitt et al. (2010). Characters are mainly derived from Gauthier (1986), Benton and Clark (1988), Sereno (1991), Sereno and Arcucci (1994), Novas (1996), Benton (1999), Rauhut (2003), Yates (2003), Butler (2005), Langer and Benton (2006), Smith et al. (2007), Irmis et al. (2007a), Butler et al. (2008), and new and revised characters from Irmis (2008) and Nesbitt (2009).
The character-taxon matrix was assembled in Mesquite v.2.6 (Maddison and Maddison, 2004). We analyzed our dataset using PAUP* 4.0b10 for Macintosh PPC (Swofford, 2002). Trees were searched for using the parsimony criterion implementedunder the heuristic search option using tree bisection and reconnection (TBR) with 10,000 random addition sequence replicates. Zero length branches were collapsed if they lack support under any of the most parsimonious reconstructions. All characters were equally weighted and the following characters were ordered: 21, 78, 89, 98, 116, 142, 159, 169, 175, 177, 195, 200, 227, 250, 281. Three most-parsimonious trees were found when the scores of Pseudolagosuchus and Lewisuchus were combined, whereas six most parsimonious trees were found when Pseudolagosuchus and Lewisuchus were treated as separate taxa. The strict consensus trees of both analyses are presented in Figures S1 and S2 of Nesbitt et al.(2010). Tree statistics were calculated using TNT v. 1.0 (Goloboff et al., 2003; Goloboff et al., 2008). Bremer support decay indices were calculated in TNT.


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Project DOI: 10.7934/P493, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P493
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Total characters: 290
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    • Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin

    • Columbia University

    • University of Utah

    • University of Washington

    • American Museum of Natural History

    • Field Museum of Natural History

    • Natural History Museum of Utah

    • Karoo Paleontology



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    Taxonomic Overview for Matrix 'M1096' (35 Taxa)

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    [1] † Erythrosuchus africanus
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    2926126100003
    [2] † Euparkeria capensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    1128027900003
    [3] † Revueltosaurus callenderi
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    3026026000003
    [4] † Aetosaurus ferratus
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    9719419300003
    [5] † Arizonasaurus babbitti
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    11517517500003
    [6] † Effigia okeeffeae
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    7022022000003
    [7] † Batrachotomus kuperferzellensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    4224824800003
    [8] † Postosuchus kirkpatricki
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    5123923900003
    [9] † Dromicosuchus grallator
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    9119919900003
    [10] † Eudimorphodon ranzii
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    15014014000003
    [11] † Dimorphodon macronyx
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    13315715700003
    [12] † Lagerpeton chanarensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    18011011000003
    [13] † Dromomeron gregorii
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    253373700003
    [14] † Dromomeron romeri
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    237535300003
    [15] † Marasuchus lilloensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    13215815800003
    [16] † Asilisaurus kongwe
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    14814214200003
    [17] † Eucoelophysis baldwini
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    266242400003
    [18] † Sacisaurus agudoensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    216747400003
    [19] † Lewisuchus admixtus
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    210808000003
    [20] † Pseudolagosuchus majori
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    209818100003
    [21] † Lewisuchus/Pseudolagosuchus
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    13016016000003
    [22] † Silesaurus opolensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    4624524400003
    [23] † Pisanosaurus mertii
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    218727200003
    [24] † Heterodontosaurus tucki
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    4824424200003
    [25] † Lesothosaurus dianosticus
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    5623423400003
    [26] † Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    3725325300003
    [27] † Eoraptor lunensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    8920220100003
    [28] † Saturnalia tupiniquim
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    13515515500003
    [29] † Plateosaurus engelhardti
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    1727327300003
    [30] † Efraasia minor
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    5223823800003
    [31] † Tawa hallae
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    4124924900003
    [32] † Coelophysis bauri
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    2726326300003
    [33] † Dilophosaurus wetherelli
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    4324724700003
    [34] † Allosaurus fragilis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    2027027000003
    [35] † Velociraptor mongoliensis
    Last Modified in 12/05/13
    5024024000003


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