Re: [dinosaur] Do people still use Troodon?

To: Mike Taylor <sauropoda@gmail.com>, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Do people still use Troodon?

From: "Yazbeck, Thomas" <yazbeckt@msu.edu>

Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:16:05 +0000

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Thread-topic: [dinosaur] Do people still use Troodon?

We don't do this for higher level taxa, especially unranked ones. There's no genus 'Reptilis' to give name to Reptilia, for example.

Thomas Yazbeck

From: dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu <dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu> on behalf of Mike Taylor <sauropoda@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 5:50 PM
To: Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Do people still use Troodon?

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 22:46, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> wrote:

The problem is that any phylogenetic definition of Ceratopsidae must
include _Ceratops_, as the nominative (name-giving) taxon.

Says who?

-- Mike.

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