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Re: Albertosaurinids
In a message dated 96-01-09 19:58:22 EST, zooamy@zoo.latrobe.edu.au (Adam
Yates) writes:
>I have. The paleoanthropologists use the term "hominin" to describe a
>member of the tribe Hominini (you know those bipedal primates that used
>to have a family all of their own). If this is correct then I guess the
>terms we are looking for (as horrible as they might sound) are Albertosaurin
>and Tyrranosaurin.
>
>
Pretty cruddy. I'm going to stick with my own scheme. But I must admit
"homininid" (which would be the derivative according to my scheme) is worse
than "hominin." Both of them really scrape the barrel bottom, though.