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I notice there are no images (not surprising given the subject matter, but I feel it could be a little more visually appealing. Maybe a map of madagascar with the locations of where remains have been recovered? Or a crude anatomical diagram with the bones which have been recovered (this would be hard
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Visionholder has kindly offered to make a map; I'll send him the locality list from MacPhee '94. By the way, there was a reconstruction in an earlier version of this article, but I threw it out because it was reconstructed as an aardvark-like mammal and sources like Walker (1999) explicitly say we
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Actually, he found little support in the data from Patterson's and Thewissen's papers—he writes that Patterson in particular was (to put it bluntly) interpreting the data tendentiously in support of tubulidentate affinities.
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because they don't look like phalanges from nesomyines, euplerids, or tenrecs. I have gotten rid of the phrase, because it seems to be more problematic than enlightening.
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is from a large lemur according to MacPhee; and for the distal phalanges MacPhee says explicitly that their identification was problematic, but he identifies them as
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Now "eutherian mammalian genus". Sounds a little awkward, but I think it's good to put both the precise "eutherian" and the more common-knowledge "mammalian" in.
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Oh, and a question for you: you changed "multiple species" to "more species". I like "multiple" better there, because it more clearly means "more than one".
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oops, forgot there was only one species of aardvark. Still, I think that sentence and the next needs rewording. I will have a think about it.
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it was going to be tricky if possible at all, so disregard. Map or lack thereof not a deal-breaker really so......
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Ross MacPhee found little support for the tubulidentate affinities of Plesiorycteropus (in their data)
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I realise...) Any other ideas welcomed. I can help make a map if I have an image to work from.
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Anyway, nearly there pending query above on images. I trust all sources have been scoured...
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Agree, again precision trumps simplicity I think here as meaning is blurred otherwise.
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Lead needs to have some basic size figures in it as well as when it became extinct.
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No edit wars, etc. (Vandalism does not count against GA):
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Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with
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Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have
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Also "affinities" used in three sentences in a row.
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