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Re: An evolution question.
From: Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>
>
> Be warned, however: Bakker is a notorious "splitter" (the joke goes
> that he never met a species name he didn't like...),
This is almost an understatement. Not since the Marsh-Cope
wars has there been such a splitter in American paleontology.
When I took the time to really look at "Denversaurus" I was
appalled. It should never have even been considered as a seperate
genus.
> so some of the
> "unnamed genus of dromaeosaurid from XXX Formation" may just be additional
> fossils of previously known genera.
Perhaps even the majority of them?
Of course he is balanced out by Greg Paul, who is an extreme lumper!
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