Re: What is a dinosaur?

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In a message dated 96-01-11 12:56:49 EST, nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu (King, Norm)
writes:

>I like Colin McHenry's (posting of 01/11/96; 12:10a) suggestion that all 
>of these large, extinct reptiles could be called saurians.  But is 
>saurian (as in "Sauria") used already to refer to a formal taxonomic 
>category? 

Sauria is often used as the name of the clade formed by the common ancestor
of lepidosaurs and archosaurs plus all its descendants.