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As you might know -- I've certainly mentioned it on twitter and elsewhere on social media -- I've been trying to finish the pterosaur section of The Big Book. I know I still have a bunch of pterosaurs yet to draw, but can'r work out which ones. Producing these cladograms is therefore useful, as it reminds me which lineages and taxa I still need to illustrate. The cladogram we see here - a 'whole pterosaur' cladogram (there will be others that show the branching orders within specific clades, like Ctenochasmatoidea and Ornithocheiroidea) - is based on that published by Andres et al. (2014), the Kryptodrakon paper. I'll also have the Kellner 2003 and Unwin 2003 cladograms as competitors. The pterosaur images themselves are taken from the large, in-prep montage, which looks like this at the moment...

Everything here is provisional - lots of tidying, moving of things, and finishing yet to happen. But this is a start. I'm also unhappy with some of the drawings (I dislike the dimorphodontid and campylognathoidid in particular), so newer versions will appear in the final version. More on pterosaurs coming soon. 

Thanks as always for the support. I feel dismayed and overwhelmed about this project and often doubt that I'll ever get it finished - I'm just never able to devote sufficient time to it. But I have to keep pushing on....

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TetZoo

I really appreciate these kind and supportive comments, thanks so much.