RE: Triassic mammal-like reptiles?

[paul w sparks <pws@psparks.us>]

How about calling the animal in question "previously know as mammal-like
reptile".
p sparks


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Triassic mammal-like reptiles?
> From: "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, November 08, 2005 12:18 pm
> To: Dinosaur Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> 
> On 11/8/05, John Hunt <john.bass@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Lets face it, it is a lot more comprehensible to the layman than the more
> > correct names used by professionals.
> 
> But it's *incorrect*. "Mammal relative" is just as comprehensible (if
> not moreso), more concise, and, to top it off, correct. (And, as Tom
> Holtz mentioned, Bakker's "protomammal" is not half-bad, either.)
> 
> Calling them "mammal-like reptiles" is like calling _Deinonychus_ a
> bird-like lizard.
> --
> Mike Keesey
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