This is the article I was waiting for.

This is the article I was waiting for. An analysis of the new dinosaur taxonomy. Complete with the question I've been asking for a while: "where the fuck did feathers actually start?" And does this new theory help answer that?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ornithoscelida-rises-a-new-family-tree-for-dinosaurs/

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  1. Paul VermerenMarch 22, 2017 at 6:39 PM

    GOD DAMMIT I KNEW IT

    I feel like Gregory S. Paul mentioned something about this back in 1988, particularly the herrerasaur/sauropodomorph similarities.

    Didn't Bakker make a big point about heterodontosaurs having a lot of saurischian characteristics in The Dinosaur Heresies way back when?

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  2. Casey G.March 22, 2017 at 6:52 PM

    Ever since they started finding feathers all over the place I've felt something was screwy.

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  3. Paul VermerenMarch 22, 2017 at 6:55 PM

    Naish even mentions that Bakker and Paul had argued for something like this but couldn't back it up at the time.

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  4. Casey G.March 22, 2017 at 7:05 PM

    My Dinosaur Heresies is in the garage or I'd check.

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  5. Paul VermerenMarch 23, 2017 at 2:41 PM

    People are still acting like this is revelatory:
    simon-roy.tumblr.com - REALM OF THE BLOODLORDS, cmkosemensketchbook: Digital composite, hand-made...

    I read about a heterodontosaur-like animal being basal to all dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) in the 80s! I didn't dream it up! I bought the book at the Cleveland Lloyd allosaur dig gift shop when I was 11! Everybody forgot about it?

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