Re: What is a dinosaur?

[Aaron Feuk <feukac@PLU.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 96-01-12 11:27:43 EST, nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu (King, Norm)
> writes:
> 
> >So saurian would work!
> 
> Except for a host of beasts such as synapsids and other reptiles (paraclass
> Reptilia here, not the clade Reptilia) that diverged from the lineage leading
> to Sauria before it split into lepidosaurs and archosaurs.
> 

How about just calling them Tetrapods and include them all? Of course 
this may be alittle too broad of a term. 

Aaron Feuk
Preparator,Dept. of Earth Sciences
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, Wa, 98447
e-mail: feukac@plu.edu