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A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria
Davide Pisani1, Adam M Yates, Max C Langer
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK. davide.pisani@bristol.ac.uk
Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
One of the ultimate aims of systematics is the reconstruction of the tree of life. This is a huge undertaking that is inhibited by the existence of a computational limit to the inclusiveness of phylogenetic analyses. Supertree methods have been developed to overcome, or at least to go around this problem by combining smaller, partially overlapping cladograms. Here, we present a very inclusive generic-level supertree of Dinosauria (covering a total of 277 genera), which is remarkably well resolved and provides some clarity in many contentious areas of dinosaur systematics.