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Re: Don't leave the girls out (was FW: Dinosaur Exhibit)

To: gbabcock@best.com, dllamson@uswest.net
Subject: Re: Don't leave the girls out (was FW: Dinosaur Exhibit)
From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:01:24 EDT
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
Reply-to: Dinogeorge@aol.com
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In a message dated 9/1/99 9:32:43 AM EST, gbabcock@best.com writes:

<< Other female dinosaur names include _Laellynasaura_
 (named after the girl who discovered it), _Scipionyx_, _Caudipteryx_,
 _Protarchaeopteryx_, and _Sinosauropteryx_. >>

Sorry, _Scipionyx_ uses the Latinization of the Greek root "onychos," meaning 
"claw," and it is masculine. Other dinosaur names using this root include 
_Aetonyx_ and _Baryonyx_.

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