Re : Re: Re : Re: Bainoceratops

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Dans un e-mail daté du Ven, 23 Mai 2003 8:09:56 PM Heure de Paris, "T. Michael 
Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> a écrit :
I wrote :
>> I don't see a big frill in *Psittacosaurus*.. Why not then simply call them
>> "parrot-beaked dinosaurs" (if there's no other example of such a beak among
>> dinosaurs)
To which HP T. Michael Keesey answered:
>
>Hmmm ... but aren't parrots "parrot-beaked dinosaurs"?
>

My turn...
Hmmm...isn't there a group (no official naming here, just usage) of dinosaurs 
called "duckbilled dinosaurs"? And ducks, aren't they "duckbilled dinosaurs"? 
(could lead to: what came first, the duck, or the dinosaur?)
I think we might find oher paradoxal examples, like HP DinoGeorge BCF states, 
dinosaurs are birds (this is not meant to revive the debate in this thread, 
just an example) so, saying "non-avian dinosaur" is a nonsense.
Just my two eurocents
Cheers,
Jean-Michel