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Re: [Fwd: Bird/Reptile fossil]



On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Graves Museum wrote:

> Bambiraptor feinbergi is the new guy on the block. He/she/it is not a
> reptile but a dinosaur.

Dinosaurs (including birds) are reptiles under phylogenetic taxonomy.
Under Linnaean taxonomy they were also considered reptiles, save in that
one scheme presented in _The Dinosaur Heresies_.

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