Re: Olshevsky and the ICZN (long)

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

>From: Crpntr@ix.netcom.com (Kenneth Carpenter)
 > I only wish this were true.  The International Code of Zoological 
 > Nomenclature (ICZN, 3rd Edition, 1985) discusses the criteria for 
 > publication in Chapter 3 ...
  > 
 >     Article 13.  Names published after 1930 -
 >          (a) requirements
 >                (I) accompanied by a description or definition that 
 > states in words characters that are purported to differentiate the 
 > taxon, or
 >                (ii) accompanied by a ... [literature] reference to such 
 > a published statement...or
 >               (iii) proposed expressly as a new replacement name (nomen 
 > novum) for an available name.

Does Olshevsky's paper in the Japanese journal really meet this
requirement?

That is does it really specifiy the purported differences between
his new genus and Tyrannosaurus/Tarbosaurus?  Or at least refer
to some other such description?

This can be the trickiest one to meet.  [Though Greg Paul managed
it quite well in Predatory Dinosaurs ...].

[Not having access to the original, I cannot really tell here].

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