Re: more henpecking on 2008-beta WWD

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> So was there a particular reason why 'polar allosaur' was dropped in favor 
> of a more general 'carnosaur' in this version?  Did they decide that it 
> was more bipolar than polar?

:-D There happens to be no evidence that it's really *Allosaurus*, so, 
considering the fact that *A.* lived half a world away 30 million years 
earlier, they stopped calling it *A.*.

> And why was Deinosuchus referred to as an alligator rather than a 
> crocodilian?

It is more closely related to the alligatorids than to the crocodylids. 
Although it's of course still a crocodylian.

> One of the most jarring changes is the dropping [or at least 
> de-emphasizing] of the meteor hit
> off Yucatan - was this a time constraint or is the K-T boundary no longer 
> thought to be the finish line?

It's still thought to be the finish line. Unless you're in the Keller School 
of Stratigraphy, that is (and as far as I can tell, you shouldn't be).