"Archosaur": "Extinct reptiles Well, they did include birds (in dinosaurs)... B-) However, write an irate
letter to protest the use of "thecodonts", the inclusion of plesio-
and ichthyosaurs and the exclusion of crocodiles.
The definition of Archosauria is AFAIK something like (Crocodylia +
Neornithes).
But as HP Tom Holtz said, normal dictionaries are never exact on such
terms. The Duden (the most authoritative German dictionary) even mandates
writing Archäopteryx instead of *Archaeopteryx* (and gives a plural form,
-pteryges), not knowing that scientific names are not subject to national
orthographies!!! Fortunately, most people don't follow this, even in popular
writings, but it occurs sometimes.
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For joy, lack of time and forgetfulness I forgot to write that I am now an
SVP student member! Great to see _lots_ of you out there in the address
directory! (I'm only the 3rd Austrian member; there are 20 times as many Germans
in the SVP, while Germany has 10 times as many
inhabitants...)
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