mammal-like reptiles is a good name?

[jrw6f@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu]

        Mr. Sumner:  What ever gave you the impression that
"mammal-like reptiles" is a "perfectly good" name.  If you ask
me, it's as bad as "non-avian dinosaurs".  It serves, in that
it immediately conjures the image of the creatures it
represents, but it also misleads.  It implies that the early
synapsids did not eventually give rise to the mammals.  To my
mind, anything is preferable to continuing the taxonomic
dissarray that the term "reptile" has brought about.
Wagner

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     Jonathan R. Wagner
     Graduate student sanz portfolio
     jrw6f@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu