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Re: Dendrorhynchoids

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Dendrorhynchoids
From: Michael de Sosa <ofsosa@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:47:27 -0600
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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It's a group named after the genus Dendrorhynchoides, right?
And could the author's meaning be: "tree-beak", meaning it
was arboreal?

> Dendro- = "tree", or "branched".
> -oid = "similar, like"
>
> So, something like "like a branching beak".

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References:
- Re: Dendrorhynchoids
  - From: Stanley Friesen <sarima@friesen.net>

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