Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-25175729-20180614202045/@comment-47205-20180614205834

So there seems to at least be agreement that biologically accurate pterosaurs don't go into Reptilia.

One could argue that they fit under the definition of mammalian-reptilian creatures for the purposes of the wiki, but I suggest they should at least have a family of their own: nearly all of Volaticus are winged humanoids, which we might as well distinguish from the very non-humanoid real-world pterosaurs. While Pterosaurs do fit the description of a family that includes lizard-people with bat wings, that's perhaps a sign that the definition of said family is a little too broad.

Furthermore, if you're going to argue that the integument is fur-like and hence mammalian, you could also argue that it's down-like and hence avian, as it is in many of the Apteriformes. Even if Pterosauria is not kept as a class, this would instead put it into Dinosauria as an order, which has a couple of minor bonuses. It brings that part of the taxonomy of SporeWiki to something more resembling its real-world counterpart (we'd essentially be using "Dinosauria" to mean something more like the lesser-known Ornithodira, because we only have so many taxon ranks, or we rename it), and also to something more matching the intent of the creators (they're making extinct dinosaur-relatives, not mammal-reptile hybrids).