Figure 30. Partitions around medoids (PAM) analysis of the non-paracrocodylomorph Pseudosuchia subset dataset in: A) three groups and B) four groups. Preondactylus, and Austriadactylus), and he did find evidence for two different monobaramins of Triassic pterosaurs: Preondactylia and Eudimorphodontinae, which matches nicely with the results of this study. Future baraminological analyses using datasets more focused on pterosaur relationships will hopefully bring greater clarity to this group, as the best we can say from this study is that Pterosauria is likely apobaraminic and that Triassic pterosaurs may form a holobaramin made up of two monobaramins: Eudimorphodontoidea and Preondactylia + Dimorphodontidae. CONCLUSION Our attempt to take a large morphological dataset of a group that we suspected contained many created kinds and tease those out with baraminological methods was successful. We identified 16 likely holobaramins, two pterosaur monobaramins, and evidence for discontinuity surrounding Pterosauria, Ornithischia, Saurischia, Poposauroidea, and Loricata. Certainly this is not the final baraminological word for any of these groups, as they all need more in-depth study. Nevertheless, the discovery of abundant discontinuity throughout this group is encouraging for the creationist perspective on the pattern of life. Rather than a tree of life with each twig leading back to a single common origin in the trunk, we see an orchard of life with over 16 different trees finding their independent biological origins in a single week by a single Creator. MCLAIN, CLAUSEN, PEREZ, BEEBE, AND AHTEN Archosauromorph Baraminology 2023 ICC 515
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