Re: Prosauropods

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/2/02 5:36:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
s.aegyptiacus@free.fr writes:

<< Funny, I was thinking that prosauropods could be basal dinosaurs, more
 related to theropods than to sauropods, kind of early plant-eating or
 omnivorous theropods >>

Not exactly a new idea--prosauropods were classified as basal theropods for 
much of the 20th century, until it was shown that carnivore teeth associated 
with many prosauropod postcranial remains were shed by predators/scavengers 
and did not belong to prosauropods.