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Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: shenron posted Fri, Sep 24 2004, 9:24pm  Let's do a survey, ask the next ten people you meet and see if they can define "dinosaur". shen Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: shenron posted Fri, Sep 24 2004, 10:16pm  Actually, are they Nothosaurs? shen Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: Lovecraft posted Sat, Sep 25 2004, 12:24pm  No, they and other protorosaurs are classified away from the Sauropterygian stock, and into the Archosauromorpha. Where the nothosaurs came from is still something of a mystery, but it appears any similarity between them and to Dinocephs is convergent. Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: busterggi posted Sat, Sep 25 2004, 8:07am  And other than illustrating general ignorance about dinosaurs what would that prove? The media is supposed to report facts, when they get the facts wrong because they are too ignorant to know them & too lazy to check them out then they do the public a disservice. Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: The Evil Cub posted Sat, Sep 25 2004, 8:38am  I can tell you what the name literally means(as can everyone here I bet, but most 'men on the street' are a little less well informed on translating Greek to English), but even I'm not sure what differentiates a saurid from, say, a bird, a reptile, or a mammal-like reptile. Especailly when you're talking about the aquatic reptiles that were contemporaries of the dino's. Is it, at least in that case, mostly hip structure? Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: shenron posted Sat, Sep 25 2004, 10:54am  Yes, and also the number of "windows" in the skulls. shen Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: The Evil Cub posted Sun, Sep 26 2004, 7:26am  Ah, thanks. Glad to know I'm not a total moron! Subject: Re: Dinocephalosurus orientalis From: ensifer posted Thu, Dec 23 2004, 8:55pm  In what way?

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