aves is under dinosauria

dinosauria is under sauria(reptiles)

Modern replies and dinosaurs are much more differnt than you think they would be

as i said i think this is somewhat of a semantical difrence

there is linnaean clasification and there is phylogenic clasification

linnaean clasification clasifies birds as seperate of reptiles

but under phylogenic clasifitaion they are under reptiles

You are right about the common ancestor but to say they *are* reptiles is wrong they are about as related to modern day reptiles as we are.

im sorry but they are by deffinition reptiles

under phylogenic clasification

They aren't tho

you cant argue againsed a deffinition

Show your source please

there is wikipedia

there are a few others but i have to find them

I'm on the wiki for Ornithurae

go up the chain

To the Phylum?

That wouldn't make sense

Avialae

go up untill you hit Avialae

then look what its under

dinosauria

click that and see what its under

eventually Archosaur

wich is under reptilia (sauria)

i have a text clasification of many species of extinct membders of sauria

im having a bit of problem with pantestudines

I know birds evolved from Dinos

birds are still dinosaurs

But to call them reptiles is needlessly pendantic, and at worst a little disingenuous

under phylogenic clasifification

its not pendantic

its deffinitional

under phylogenic clasification

If you say "birds are lizards" you ignore what differentiates birds from lizards

just like how in science the word theory means something else

i never said birds are lizards

lizards are a subclade of reptile

Apologies

"birds are reptiles"