Valentine Pontifex

Dunk in the talk.origins newsgroup pointed out the following link:

<a href="http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2002May/msg00069.html" target="_blank">http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2002May/msg00069.html</a>

We might get back Eohippus as a valid taxon. Yeah. It is enough to make anyone a taxonomic cladist. :-)

Paraphyletic taxa are groups like reptiles: taxa whose members all have a common ancestor but the taxon does not include all decendents of that common ancestor.