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Re: The absurdity, the absurdity (was: Cooperating theropods?)



Sorry to reply to my own post, but I wanted to correct a mistake before
everyone else does.  :)

> > Greg Paul has also gone back and made the sauropods in his
> > illustrations  spiny because there's some purported evidence
> > that *one* sauropod may have had spines.
> 
> For God's sake, Larry, look at the picture.  It's not a damn sauropod,
> it's a Tenontosaurus.  A hadrosaur.  Duck-billed dinosaur.

In my frustration I overlooked the fact that _Tenontosaurus_'
classification is a bit murky.  It has been classed as a hadrosaur by
some, but majority opinion seems to have leaned toward placing it in the
hyupsolophidonts or iguanodonts.  

Sorry for the error,
Chris