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Re: What is a Dinosaur?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, David Marjanovic wrote:
> *Passer domesticus* is a good idea because Neornithes is defined as
> {*Passer* + *Struthio*}.
OOC, who defined it that way?
> ***********************************************
> Thus you can pretty much say that theropod is a synonym for
> "carnivorous dinosaur", but the actual definition of theropod is
> taxonomic rather than gastronomic.
>
> HP Mickey Rowe in http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1994Oct/0130.html
Plenty of omnivorous and even herbivorous theropods, tho'. But _Theropoda_
does contain the only carnivorous dinosaurs (with the possible exception
some very basal forms).
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