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Re: Fw: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

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Subject: Re: Fw: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:12:52 -0700
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On 8/18/06, don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com> wrote:

Maybe I am being too harsh. The 22% who were unsure may be folks like me; unsure in this post-Linnaean BAD/BAND world just what the hell a dinosaur is. And when I was 7 it seemed so clear and well-defined.


What's simpler and more precise than, "the final common ancestor of
_Iguanodon_ and _Megalosaurus_, plus all descendants of that final
common ancestor"?
--
T. Michael Keesey
The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com
Parry & Carney: http://parryandcarney.com

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