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Re:New 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found hiding in plain sight by mattbk1 on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:46PM (#24756393)
It's a shorthand in common parlance, and not every group needs to be monophyletic to be useful.
Re:New 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found hiding in plain sight by boxed on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:18AM (#24774706)
Maybe. But this one isn't imo. How can it be useful to call snakes, birds, crocodiles and pterosaurs "reptile"? It makes no sense. At least if you exclude avemetatarsalia it says something about scaly skin and stuff, but that's not the common parlance use so in my opinion it's better to just throw the entire word in the bin :)