I wonder how many more mistakes like this have been made from trying to put an ancient set of bones together without the assembly manual?
If they dug up a chihuahua, and they dug up a great dane, would they declare them to be breeds of canis lupus familiaris? Or would they declare them to be entirely different species? Which would be the ancestor species — the chihuahua or the great dane? How many millions of years older would that ancestor be?
It’s all fantasy and make believe.
Hah! I suspect there are many more mistakes like this.