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Stupid German Dinosaurs (kbin.melroy.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

They are basically the sistergroup. When the term dinosaur was coined, the most distantly related dinosaurs were taken as reference and everything and everything "between" them was defined as a dinosaur. Pterodactyls weren't known back than, that's basically the reason they are excluded