RE: The extinction of small dinosaurs

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Michael Bruce Habib wrote:

> Yes, dinosaur clades appear 
> to have been hit especially hard, but to say that only 
> non-avian dinosaurs were killed is incorrect; this is 
> simply the largest group completely elliminated.

Of course.  That is what I meant to say.  Is it possible to say something
like: on land extinct dinosaurs were separated by more genetic distance
from their nearest relatives than any other related extinct and surviving
clade.