Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-25175729-20180614202045/@comment-1073312-20180615161538

I think we should try to follow the real life taxonomy as much as possible, as a guideline, while also sticking to morphology in Spore. How to reconcile the two?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a major issue seems to be about whether we should merge morphologically identical taxons (like whether Pterosaurs modelled in Spore should fall under Dinosauria).

Perhaps the criterion we could be asking is, are these differences that could actually be modelled Spore?". I think there are grounds for keeping pterosaurs and dinosaurs separate, because as Disgustedorite as said, there are features like limb placements and wing shapes that are distinctive enough to not be classified as dinosaurs or mammals (there's some species that look like bats, but should not be classified as such because the wings are different).  On the other hand, if we can't find a sufficient difference, i.e. if pterosaurs more closely resembled dinosaurs and we couldn't model the difference, then they could be merged together.