Re: Dinosaur Genera List corrections #132

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Do Drs Norell and Clark still intend to publish it in _American Museum 
Novitates_?  It will be a shame if it can't be because the same or similar 
article (i.e. the same original contribution to knowledge) was earlier 
published elsewhere (most journals I know of do not allow this).  In fact, 
it will be mighty annoying if the description of _Achillobator_ is confined 
to the Mongolian journal.



> "We wrote an early draft of this paper with Perle with the intention of
> publishing it in American Museum Novitates.  This manuscript was published 
> in
> Mongolia in an extremely preliminary form without the knowledge of the 
> junior
> authors, and without a planned comparative analysis.  While much of the
> primary description represents our cumulative efforts, neither of us
> contributed to, or saw, the section labeled "Habits and affinities of
> Dromaeosurian Dinosaurs" before publication.
>
> "Mark A. Norell and James M. Clark"
>
> Consider it done.
>
> But, despite the fiasco described in the preceding posts, we do have 
> another
> name to add to the Dinosaur Genera List:
>
> Achillobator Perle, Norell & Clark, 1999
>
> as genus #877;
>
> and to the list of Asiatic dinosaur species, we add
>
> Achillobator Perle, Norell & Clark, 1999
>     A. giganticus Perle, Norell & Clark, 1999?
>
> This is, I believe, the same dinosaur that I first heard of about eight 
> years
> ago (give or take a year) under the unpublished name Achillonychus. The
> latter name has not yet been published (and may never be), so it's not a
> candidate for the Dinosaur Genera List at this time.

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