Re: Fixing dinosaurian carnivour question

["T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, luisrey wrote:

> >So, do you want the smallest (known, adult) non-avian carnivorous dinosaur
> >or the smallest (known, adult) Mesozoic carnivorous dinosaur? The former
> >is _Compsognathus longipes_,
> 
> Well, comparing my cast of the Berlin Archaeopteryx with another of
> Compsognathus, Compsognathus comes out as much more robust and fairly
> bigger in every sense. So Archaeopteryx is definitively a smaller dinosaur.

I was talking about non-avian dinosaurs. By the definition of Aves that
most use ({_Archaeopteryx_ + Neornithes}), Archie is an avian.
 
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