Talk:List of crurotarsans
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[edit] Split the List?
Crurotarsans are such a diverse group in terms of diet, lifestyle, morphology and time period wherein they lived that I think it would be more useful if this list was split into a few more specific ones:
- List of aetosaurs
- List of rauisuchians
- List of phytosaurs
- List of crocodilians
What do you guys think? I know the lists would be quite a bit shorter, but in my opinion they would be a bit more coherent. Abyssal leviathin 23:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
- I disagree. When I started this list I gave thought to that quandary but ultimately considered it needless for the purpose of this list. My objective, to make it clear, was listing genera pertaining or that pertained to the clade Crurotarsi, much as in List of dinosaurs which are as or more diverse even without birds. Splitting the list the way you propose one would get a "cruft" of basal forms one would not know where to put ("basal crurotarsans"?) and very short lists that would look better on the pertinent articles. I'd rather lump the genera in this list and leave the minutiae of classification to the clade articles. The only list that would fare better would be that of crocodilians but since it is a clade with extant genera and there are already lists pertaining to crocodilian species, I though it was unnecessary duplication of information and, as a cladist, an arbitrary cuttoff that rendered a neat monophyletic list paraphyletic ;-) I'm all for including links to the pertinent taxonomical articles in the See also section and in the Introduction, though. Dracontes (talk) 12:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- Alrighty. You've made your point. :) Abyssal leviathin (talk) 13:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
