Re: Taxonomy (was Re: Fixing dinosaurian carnivour question)

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 01:14 AM 6/2/99 -0400, Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>As >orders< I would make the basic groups of dinosaurian discourse, namely, 
>Theropoda, Sauropoda, Ankylosauria, Ceratopia, Ornithopoda, Stegosauria, and 
>such. These would be grouped into superorders and so forth at one's 
>discretion.

Yep.  That is indeed why I would make Saurischia/Ornithischia superorders.
As far as I can see the above listed taxa are the "primary" high level
taxa, and thus should be given ordinal rank.

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