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<emphasis id="B9603701FFB3FF9DFF3524D7FE2BFB6B" bold="true" box="[151,410,1196,1222]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Staurikosaurus pricei</emphasis>
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as a herrerasaurid
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Prior to the work of Novas (1992), who identified several characters thought to unite
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and
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.
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in a single clade (Fig. 34b), the hypothesis of a close relationship between both species forming the clade
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was contested by several authors (
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; van
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;
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;
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).
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is nowadays widely accepted as monophyletic and wellsupported by a suite of postcranial characters (Novas 1993, 1996, 1997;
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="EF8596E2FFB3FF9DFF3525EFFE0EFA03" author="Kellner" box="[151,447,1428,1454]" pageId="45" pageNumber="53" refString="Kellner, A. W. A. &amp; Campos, D. A. (2000) Brief review of dinosaur studies and perspectives in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 72, 509 - 538." type="journal article" year="2000">Kellner &amp; Campos 2000</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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;
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;
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). Reanalysis of the matrix of
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resulted in the following synapomorphies for
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: 1) centra and neural spines of caudal dorsal vertebrae axially shortened; 2) ribs of the first primordial sacral vertebra are deeper than half the depth of the ilium; 3) neural spines of proximal caudal vertebrae dorsally directed; 4) prezygapophyses of distal caudal vertebrae overlap more than a quarter of the adjacent centrum; 5) ventral portion of the postacetabular process does not bear a deep fossa in its caudal portion for the origin of
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.
<emphasis id="B9603701FFB3FF9DFE472607FD5CF938" box="[485,749,1660,1685]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">caudofemoralis brevis</emphasis>
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(= reduction of the brevis fossa); 6) lateral margin of the pubis caudally folded at its distal portion, with the pubic pair showing a U-shaped transverse section; 7) caudolateral flange of distal tibia short and does not project to the fibula. Characters 13 are seen only in herrerasaurids, but character 4 is also observed in theropods (
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; Novas 1992), and was formerly used to support a phylogenetic position of herrerasaurids within Theropoda (e.g.
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). In the phylogenetic hypothesis of
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this character is interpreted as independently acquired in theropods and herrerasaurids. Characters 5 and 7 are reversals to the ancestral state for Dinosauria; usage of these characters to diagnose
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is unproblematic because the position of this clade within dinosaurs is well-supported (see above). The presence of plesiomorphic character states in taxa of a given ingroup should not be surprising, because evolution is prolific in every kind of homoplasy, i.e. convergences, parallelisms and reversals (
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). In the reanalyses of the dataset of
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conducted here, herrerasaurids do not appear as a clade in the strict consensus tree, possibly due to the non-inclusion of characters considered synapomorphic for
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.
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and
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(
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Among the characters presented above,
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<emphasis id="B9603701FFB0FF9EFD0C2177FC41FE88" box="[686,1008,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Chindesaurus bryansmalli</emphasis>
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and
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only definitely possess the reduction of the brevis fossa, but the materials attributed to these taxa are too incomplete to yield accurate conclusions as to their phylogenetic position. The shortening of the caudal dorsal vertebrae reported for
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(
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was contested by Nesbitt
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. (2007). According to
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Irmis
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, the presence of two sacral vertebrae unites
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.
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and
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. However, as stated by
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,
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.
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bears three sacral vertebrae (two sacrals plus one dorsosacral), as does the basal dinosauriform
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<emphasis id="B9603701FFB0FF9EFB99218FFA80FDA0" box="[1083,1329,500,525]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Silesaurus opolensis</emphasis>
(
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)
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. In
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.
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, there are also three sacrals, although this differs from
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<emphasis id="B9603701FFB0FF9EFBF42261FBDAFD9E" box="[1110,1131,538,563]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">H</emphasis>
.
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by the incorporation of a caudal element, rather than a dorsal element, into the sacrum. Therefore the presence of two sacral vertebrae is not a synapomorphy of
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, and
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and
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cannot be unequivocally assigned to
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on the basis of available evidence.
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