Talk:Therapsida
From Academic Kids
For lack of a better name, perhaps Therapsida should be placed in a taxon called a subsuperclass. What do you think? --Ingoolemo 01:22, 2004 Jun 13 (UTC)
It'd probably be better not to try to combine the Linnean and Cladistic systems in this way. The cladistic system has an indefinite number of branches; these aren't the same as the linnean hierarchies of Class, Phylum, etc. My own take (others may disagree) is that the cladistic phylogeny and linnean hierarchy are two distinct but complementary approaches to the classification of life.
For a generic cladistic taxonomic "rank" one can always say "plesion" (I think technically every clade is (or can be called) a "plesion") --M Alan Kazlev 23:31 (AEST), 2005 Feb 20
