Re: What is a dinosaur?

[pharrinj@PLU.edu]

On Thu, 11 Jan 1996 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 96-01-11 12:56:49 EST, nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu (King, Norm)
> writes:
> 
> >I like Colin McHenry's (posting of 01/11/96; 12:10a) suggestion that all 
> >of these large, extinct reptiles could be called saurians.  But is 
> >saurian (as in "Sauria") used already to refer to a formal taxonomic 
> >category? 
> 
> Sauria is often used as the name of the clade formed by the common ancestor
> of lepidosaurs and archosaurs plus all its descendants.
> 

But I don't think _Dimetrodon_ is a saurian, any way you slice it.