What is a dinosaur?

["King, Norm" <nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu>]

Dinogeorge wrote (01/11/96; 5:01p):

>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.

So saurian would work!



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