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by eversbane » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:37 pm
Calilasseia wrote:The Tree of Life web site is your friend.
Go to
here to see the part of the tree containing the Romerida.
Oh, by the way, you're right. I made a cock up with the Tuatara. I was getting
Sphenacodon confused with
Sphenodon, the former being a sodding big Permian-era pelycosaur, the latter a modern day reptile.
Arrgh!! So many misconceptions in my head....
I would have said that Reptilomorph was an Amniote, not the other way round. So, Reptilomorph is a sister clade to Amphibian, giving rise to, among others, Amniotes. yeesh! OK. Thanks.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
- Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant. 1933.