dinosaurian

• But for non-dinosaurian reptiles and amphibians the predator/ prey ratio is closer to 40 per hundred For Bakker this proved that the dinosaurs had been alert, fast-moving warm-blooded creatures with the high energy needs that a physiology with internal-temperature-regulating capacity demands. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
• Feduccia concludes, "In spite of some paleontologists 'desperate pleas for us to accept through faith the dinosaurian origin of avian flight, the details of the origin of birds remain elusive after more than a hundred and fifty years." —  Evolution News & Views
• Comparing a great chambered dinosaurian (_Camarasaurus_) vertebra (see above) with the weight per cubic inch of an ostrich vertebra, we reach the astonishing conclusion that it weighed only twenty-one pounds, or half the weight of a whale vertebra of the same bulk. —  Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
• In the ancient dinosaurian reptiles, upright walkers, the same was the case. —  Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
• Cretacic dinosaurian fauna never succeeded in crossing. —  Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

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