Re: If not "Raptors," then what?

["Nick Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

David wrote-
> The only time I've seen a microorder was in The Dinosaur Society
> Dinosaur Encyclopedia (Don [sic] Lessem & Donald F. Glut, Random House 
> 1993, also called the Dinosaur Blunder Book); there Maniraptora
> is a microorder of microorder Coelurosauria, leading its own inflation of 
> ranks ad absurdum.

This was further advocated by a dinosaur clip art site's "fact files" and by 
the Smithsonian Dinosaur Museum computer program.  Ad absurdum, that's a new 
one... ;)
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