User:Miracusaurs/Phylogeny/Mesquite

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This is my data matrix as interpreted by Mesquite, using default settings of a "Mesquite Heuristic (Add & Rearrange)" search.

Version 1 (2019)[edit]

Featuring 128 taxa and 32 characters, ordered alphabetically.

Dinosauria


Note the paraphyletic Ornithischia, the (Ceratopsia + Thyreophora <- "Ornithopoda") clade, rhabdodontid Amtocephale, monophyletic Prosauropoda, theropodan Agrosaurus and Pampadromaeus, carnosaurian tyrannosaurids, coelurosaurian Heterodontosaurus (joined by Protoavis), therizinosaurian Yi, dromaeosaurid Anchiornis, deinonychosaurian oviraptorids, among others.

Mesquite also does this weird thing where similarly-scored taxa are recovered as laddered clades sorted alphabetically, with the alphabetically first taxon sister to the last.