Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-25175729-20180614202045/@comment-25175729-20180615154922

Dinoman972 wrote: All dinosaurs are quite morphologically different from each other (probably the reason Opdagon is plotting to remove Dinosauria), but share some common traits they also share with pterosaurs. All mammals are very different from each other morphologically as well: it has bats, elephants and platypuses in a same class. Also, the dinosaur Yi qi sort of resembled a pterosaur, as it had winged forelimbs (although the structure was more like those of a bat and it possibily walked bipedally), a beak and possibily feathers.

Also, I think it's Ghelae who put the pterosaurs inside the family. Opdagon probably changed the definition, which actually kind of made sense (Insect wings would mean going into Hemiinsecta, which is the reason I moved the Bug Dragon to Cogoingrediae), and then I changed the description again and moved one of the pterosaurs to Segoingrediae because I didn't know about the original description. Ghelae did no such thing, and even told me so on the discord.

If you think dinosaurs are only joined by morphology they share with pterosaurs, you are very very wrong at the highest level. The only similarities they share are ones they also share with mammals--that is, that they are warm-blooded 4-limbed chordates with their legs under them which often have fluff. By your logic, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mammals, and birds should all be placed under a new taxon, "flufferia".

Everything I saw in Cogoingrediae has an exoskeleton. There is a large distinction between a creature with skin-based wings on a scaly lizard body and a straight-up arthropod with a lizard head.