Re: when is a Lazarus Taxon not a Lazarus Taxon?

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

There will be but no one has dug it up yet :-)
Frank (Rooster) Bliss
Weston, Wyoming

On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Roberto Takata wrote:

> Wow, is there any Jimmy Hoffa taxon?
>
> []s,
>
> Roberto Takata
>
> On 11/6/06, tholtz@geol.umd.edu <tholtz@geol.umd.edu> wrote:
> > > Is an Elvis taxon a taxon that is really extinct, but thought by  
> > some
> > > to be still alive (like the Loch Ness plesiosaur)?
> >
> > An Elvis taxon is when a new species assumes the same form as a  
> > previously
> > existing, but extinct, species. I.e., it is an impersonator of an  
> > extinct
> > form.
> >
> > There is also the Zombie Effect (when a fossil is reworked and  
> > redeposited
> > in younger sediment).