Plesions and plesiomorphons (not the same)

[Curtis Clark]

on 2005-03-14 15:02 Ken Kinman wrote:
> Curtis, Oh my goodness no!!!   ALL of my plesions are assumed to be
> holophyletic (usually fossil genera).  Plesions are NOT supposed to
> be paraphyletic, although some workers have done so incorrectly, and
> Kluge has thus coined a new term (plesiomorphon) for what you are
> apparently talking about.

Thanks for the correction; I was going on Wiley's use of the term, and
had never followed up on it because I had never needed it in my own
research. So what, then, is a plesion by your definition? And where did
the term originate?

I'm more an more thinking about the usefulness of a paraphylocode. :-)

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