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Re: Shandongornipes muxiai 120-million-year-old fossilized footprints

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Subject: Re: Shandongornipes muxiai 120-million-year-old fossilized footprints
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:07:11 -0400
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Quoting Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net>:

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/03/ancient_roadrunnerlike_bird_fr
.php

Apparently the honoree of the species epithet is a teenage girl. If this were a body-fossil name, it would have to be emended to *muxiaae* (yuck; I think I would fudge it to *muxiae*). Does ichnotaxonomy have any such similar rules?

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Nick Pharris
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University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
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- Shandongornipes muxiai 120-million-year-old fossilized footprints
  - From: Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net>

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