(August 11, 2014 at 8:40 pm)Chuck Wrote:(August 11, 2014 at 7:12 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Not quite true. To my knowledge all feathered dinosaurs are ceolosuarian, meaning that they are descendants of one small Triassic dinosaur. Ceolosuarian cover a large range of theropods that eat either meat or plants. We do known however that this does not cover all dinosaurs as all ceolosuarian are orithosrithian ( forgive my spelling) and there are still saurischians as well. As well we have carnosaurs which are a whole other lineage of animals.
You have it backwards. Birds and theropods are saurischians, not ornithischians, despite the name. Ornithischians have a hip structure superficially similar to birds, but they are otherwise much less similar to birds than saurischians.
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I realized that after I read your post. Also you may find this interesting. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoavis
I'm skeptical of this find but it does pique my interest.
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