Re: Protoavis

[Stan Friesen <swf@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM>]

>From: Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>
 >  Examples include
 > Phytosaurus ("plant-lizard", for an animal now known to be carnivorous),
 > Basilosaurus ("king lizard", for a whale), and the trival nomen for
 > Therizinosaurus cheloniformis ("turtle form", because they first thought it
 > was a giant turtle-like beast).

Or for that matter a couple of genera of Troodontid theropods
whose name ends in -ornis, because they were originally described
as fragmentary birds.

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