Talk:Eoraptor

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There is a small problem with the opening of this article, in that only the full binomial name means "Dawn plunderer from the Valley of the Moon", but the binomial name, Eoraptor lunensis including the species, does not appear in the opening sentence, per guidelines, rendering this information false. Either the full binomial name needs to be mentioned somewhere in the opening paragraph, or the bit about the meaning of the full name needs fixing.--Firsfron of Ronchester 19:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Good point - does this alteration do it? - Ballista 08:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

weird - I can get dawn, plunderer & 'of the moon' but I can't see no valley in the latin name (?) (does sound nice and poetic though..) Cas Liber 13:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

This was an inherited bit of text, from previous editing - the Latin 'lunensis' of course implies nothing of the 'valley' but, as I believe, the site of discovery was the 'Valley of the Moon' - may be a bit of wordsmithing is needed, to be more accurate (and thereby lose some of the poetry)? - Ballista 05:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I missed that wrong sigma, too - very sneaky! - Ballista 05:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eoraptor' phylogenetic position

Remove Eoraptor from the Theropoda and place it as Saurischia incertae sedis, because Eoraptor is close to the Herrerasauridae.

No, because this is not a universally accepted position. There is a load of uncertainty surrounding the position of Eoraptor and the herrerasaurs, which should be (and is) reflected in the taxobox. I'll also point out that nowhere in the text is the word theropod even mentioned. Rather than removing it from a group in which it's not really included, a discussion of its phylogenetic position should be added, which I invite you to do.Dinoguy2 02:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)