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Dinosaur Status
editOn some websites Dravidosaurus has been listed as "no longer considered to be a Dinosaur". It lists it as a plesiosaur now, because the skeleton was very incomplete so it was just thought to be a Stegosaur. Is it actually a Plesiosaur? User:Jntg4
Unless anyone can actually cite a recent good source, Dravidosaurus should be placed back into the Stegosauridae. As of 2004, it was still included within the Dinosauria (Galton & Upchurch). I note also that the Natural History museum also continues calling it a stegosaur, even while acknowledging the Chatterjee objection: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/detail.dsml?Genus=Dravidosaurus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.173.209.117 (talk) 18:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'd be more inclined to just classify it as a thing (diapsid, actually, as that includes plesiosaurs and stegosaurs), until further notice. J. Spencer (talk) 23:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Why should we list it as a stegosaur again? When we found out that Teratosaurus was a rauisuchian, did we demand to put it back in Theropoda?70.80.215.121 (talk) 23:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)Adam70.80.215.121 (talk) 23:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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editI was looking for a reconstruction of Dravidosaurus and I couldn't find anything ('sides the Stegosaur-based interpretations...) At the very least, do we know if it was a Plesiosauroid or a Pliosauroid? David Fuchs 14:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- Got me. I don't know if anyone has done much with it since Chatterjee. J. Spencer 21:14, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- This recently came up on... DinoForum maybe? Yeah, Chatterjee was the last one to look at it, and he didn't do much other than point out that the stegosaur was a plesiosaur. Dinoguy2 14:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I believe that it would be a plesiosauroid, as Dravidosaurus lived in the Coniacian, while the pliosauroids had died out in the preceding Turonian. 70.80.215.121 (talk) 16:40, 8 May 2011 (UTC)Adam70.80.215.121 (talk) 16:40, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Well?
editOkay, now I'm confused. Is the main article correct? Is it a stegosaur or a plesiosaur? If it is a plesiosaur, is it long-necked or short-necked? 70.80.215.121 (talk) 13:59, 7 May 2011 (UTC)Adam70.80.215.121 (talk) 13:59, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Never mind, my points are mentioned above. 70.80.215.121 (talk) 16:38, 8 May 2011 (UTC)Adam70.80.215.121 (talk) 16:38, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Too bad it's not a stegosaur, a late-surviving remnant of those plate-backed plant-munchers would be awesome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.130.109 (talk) 23:38, 9 January 2012 (UTC)