Re: Old Dubia vs. New Valida

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@friesen.net>]

At 02:58 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Mike Keesey wrote:
>That's an interesting one, since _"R." tamesnensis_ doesn't really belong
>in _Rebbachisaurus_. Unless I'm mistaken, if the two species were the
>same, _"R." tasmenensis_ couldn't be placed in _Jobaria_, because the type
>species of _Jobaria_ (_J. tiguidensis_) would be a junior subjective
>synonym (of _"R." tasmenensis_), and thus the genus would be invalid.

Not so.  That just makes _"R" tasmenensis_ the type species of _Jobaria_.
There are many such cases where the type species proved to be a junior
subjective synonym, so the rule is that "type"ness is contagious.

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