Re: getting a handle on Dinosaur taxonomy

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Eric Martichuski <herewiss13@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to thank everyone who responded.  It basically sounds like the sort 
> of parallels and comparisons I was hoping to find not only don't exist, but 
> _can't_ exist, given the sort of language used to discuss paleo-species.  

Not just paleo-species; any taxon.

> Which is a pity, but hardly surprising, if I'd thought about it a bit more.

There are some things you can use to compare, like duration of divergence.

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