Talk:Raeticodactylus

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[edit] Rhamphorhynchoid?

Why is Raeticodactylus here classified as a rhamphorhynchoid, while the describer explicitly abstains from such a classification in a paraphyletic group and merely indicates the form as "non-pterodactyloid"?--MWAK (talk) 08:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Because I'm a lazy, lazy man. Seriously, it's because for whatever reason we're still using some paraphyletic groups on WP. Personally, I never got why grade names had to be eliminated like they were bourgeoisie and this was early Soviet Russia, as I find prosauropod, hypsilophodont, and rhamphorhynchoid to be easier to grasp, easier to write, and more useful than basal sauropodomorph, basal ornithopod (or, more accurately, small bipedal ornithischian that's not something else), and non-pterodactyloid pterosaur, respectively. I'll take it out, though. J. Spencer (talk) 13:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. We'll put it back again once the first cladistic analysis is out ;o).--MWAK (talk) 18:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)