Re: Caenagnathiformes (toothlessness)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Very funny,
    I hope you weren't being serious.  Why would Sternberg named the *jaw* 
he found the "recent jawless one"?  I've never seen anyone translate it that 
way, and it wouldn't make any sense.
    And I was rather puzzled by Tim's post about Archaeopteryx and 
Deinonychus being so much alike.  I agree that they are alot alike, so why 
object to putting them into the same Class Aves?  I even put Deinonychus in 
Order Archaeopterygiformes.
            -------  Ken
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> From: NJPharris@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Caenagnathiformes (toothlessness)
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:18:54 EST
>
> In a message dated 1/27/02 11:45:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kinman@hotmail.com writes:
>
> >     Well, you might be able to argue that Caenagnathus was a misnomer, 
> but
> >  Caenagnathiformes would mean something like "in the form of a recent 
> jaw"
>
> Well, no, it means "those that are shaped like the recent jawless one".
>
> --Nick P.



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