How characters recoding, characters rescoring, and matrix combination weaken phylogenetic and taxonomic inference: the case of Scythicorhinus

Kovalchuk et al. [1] propose a new genus, Scythicorhinus, for the Kvabebi rhinoceros and treat the previous assignment of the same material to Pliorhinus miguelcrusafonti by Pandolfi et al. [2] as a “misidentification”. We think that this new interpretation is not supported by the numerical and empi