Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-25175729-20180614202045/@comment-25175729-20180615181808

Dinoman972 wrote: But none of the paravians has wings (except for Opdagon's Ovoraptor, which doesn't look like a dinosaur at all), which are the main criteria of Draco. Plus, dragons aren't that lizard like, as most of them have their legs under their body, like dinosaurs and mammals. Also, pterosaurs significantly resemble wyverns: dragons with two legs and two limbs, sometimes even depicted with beaks. Although I must admit original wyverns were much more serpentine and didn't posess beaks, their limb structure was still remniscent of pterosaurs. Plus, mythology doesn't matter that much in the taxonomy project: most creatures are completely fictional and as such, despite commonly inspired in real-life creatures and legends, are rarely represented exactly like their real-world counterparts.

Also, "they are covered in fluff unlike any other on Earth" is something that doesn't affect the creature itself, but it's real-life counterpart. Opdagon's Sordes doesn't seem to posess it, and I still see no fluff in Aliudipter, besides those black stripes on its limbs. And if that fluff resembled hair, we would have a reason to put them inside Pelycosauria or Therapsida instead of giving them their own taxon. On this wiki, the real life taxon takes priority over fake made-up fictional fantasy ones invented to classify things that are not like any real-life animals and did not fit any real-life taxon. I thought this was VERY clear when I read about how this wiki does taxonomy. Thus, pterosaurs are not wyverns any more than bats or scansoriopterygids are. Only wyverns are wyverns, by the simple fact supported by the wiki's guidelines that a wyvern is not any real-life animal.

A wing, by the simplest definition, is an arm with either membranes or flight feathers on it. Nearly all dromaeosaurs and oviraptorids on the whole wiki do in fact have wings, just with hands on them.

As I said and which you ignored, Aliudipter uses a fur skin paint. If you looked closely at it in-game, you would see the fur skin paint applied to it. However, the presence of fur does not make a pterosaur a mammal for the same reason that the presence of fur does not make a moth or a spider a mammal.

I suggest that you stop this before you inevitably get in trouble for forcing fake made-up taxons for fake made-up animals on real animals.