Guzzman, J. J. and McLain, Matthew A. (2025) Evidence for a Silesaurid (Archosauria: Dinosauriformes) Holobaramin with a Discussion of Triassic Dinosaurs. New Creation Studies, 1 (1): 4. pp. 34-64.
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Abstract
The Silesauridae is a family of non-dinosaurian dinosauriforms thought by some conventional paleontologists to be the evolutionary bridge from non-dinosaurian archosaurs to dinosaurs. Thus, in order to advance the creationist understanding of the silesaurids, we analyzed character datasets from four studies: Nesbitt et al. (1), Martz and Small (2), Müller and Garcia (3), and Norman et al. (4) with statistical baraminology using BARCLAY to conduct baraminic distance correlation (BDC), 3D multidimensional scaling (MDS), partitions around medoids (PAM), and fuzzy analysis (FANNY). The results showed evidence of continuity within the Silesauridae and discontinuity surrounding the family. Because of this, we propose that the Silesauridae is a distinct holobaramin. From these analyses, we also tentatively conclude that the Silesauridae holobaramin might include Lagosuchus (Marasuchus), and maybe Pisanosaurus mertii. We also observed evidence of discontinuity among the stratigraphically lowest dinosaurs, which are found in Upper Triassic rocks.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science (General) > QE Geology > QE760 Paleontology > QE760.2 Dinosaurs Q Science (General) > QH Natural History. Biology > QH102 Baraminology. Biosystematics |
| Depositing User: | Walt Stumper |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2026 20:12 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2026 20:28 |
| URI: | https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/1934 |
