Re: Herrerasaurus - what was it?

[Erik Boehm <erikboehm07@yahoo.com>]

Well, it certainly looks like a theropod, at least as much as an ichthyosaur 
looks like a dolphin.

I'd guess the factions are whether theropods and sauropods split before or 
after Herrerasaurus.
If they split after, that means that the last common ancestor of sauropods & 
theropods was very theropod like.

--- On Sat, 10/3/09, B tH <soylentgreenistrex@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: B tH <soylentgreenistrex@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Herrerasaurus - what was it?
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 12:19 PM
> Agree or disagree?
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> http://www.geol.umd..edu/~tholtz/G104/figures/104Saurischia.png
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> Is my fave Triassic dino a theropod or not?
> What's the consensus?  Or the factions?
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