Subj: Re: Will the real Futabasaurus please stand
up?
Date: 98-06-29 23:12:42 EDT
From: Dinogeorge
To: majestic_cheese@yahoo.com
In a message dated 98-06-29 21:47:59 EDT,
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:
<< Tyrannosauroid or plesiosaur? >>
Futabasaurus is just a nomen nudum that appeared in a popular account
of
Japanese dinosaurs, not a properly described genus. So anybody can
call
anything Futabasaurus until the genus is formally published with
description,
type species and type specimen, and so forth. The Japanese are particularly
fond of naming vertebrate fossils after localities, as in "Futaba-ryu,"
which
then translates into English as "Futabasaurus." So there could be both
a
tyrannosaur and a plesiosaur "Futabasaurus."
In karate, ryu, to the best of my limited knowledge of Japanese, generally means "way"; as in Wado-ryu and Isshin-ryu being the systems or way of the traditional Japanese karate styles Wado and Isshin.
Michael Teuton