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Re: Paul on Citipati
Is the Paul book out? How come every seems to have it but me? Perhaps there
is a digital version?
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On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:02 AM, Jaime Headden wrote:
>
> Greg Paul has recently published a beautiful new Field Guild-style book
> through Princeton's press, titled (amazingly) _The Princeton Field Guide to
> Dinosaurs_. It's large, cheap, has been mentioned before on this list, and
> boasts lots and lots of beautiful art.
>
> Unfortunately, I nor a few others cannot sing it full of praises. Paul has
> lumped a number of taxa in the book, and the list is here at Mickey's blog:
> http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsps-new-taxon-combinations-from-his.html
>
> It seems anachronistic after a publication in which Paul split off several
> iguanodont-grade ornithopods [1], especially since the justifications for
> some of these are based on apparent "regional" or size-based variation, when
> in fact he ignores various systematic works to achieve the synonymy (e.g.,
> *Lourinhanosaurus antunesi* as *Allosaurus antunesi*). In a more personal
> case, virtually all oviraptorids were lumped together (with the exception of
> [at the time unpublished] *Banji long* and *Oviraptor philoceratops*) ...
> into *Citipati*. I describe my take in more detail here:
> http://qilong.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/what-is-citipati-gracilis/
>
> [1] Paul, G. S. 2008. A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera
> and species. _Cretaceous Research_ 29(2):192-216.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jaime A. Headden
> The Bite Stuff (site v2)
> http://qilong.wordpress.com/
>
> "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
>
>
> "Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a
> different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
> has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
> his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion
> Backs)
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