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Re: Discovery could Endanger T.Rex Name

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Discovery could Endanger T.Rex Name
From: Garrison Hilliard <garrison@efn.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:58:40 -0400
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:42:28 +0100 (BST), you wrote:


>heres some gumph from the ICZN (someone will correct me if wrong !);
>
>i guess that there is a clause that says that if a name has been in
>common usage (and there is time limit for this, I forget) but that
>subsequently turns out to be preoccupied (like T rex in this case), then
>the younger (more used) one can be made a nomen protectum ?.
>
>the older name gets designated a nomen oblitum ?

BRONTOSAURUS!


>---- a similar thing could have to happen with the fossil duck
>Presbyornis.
>
>Cheers, Gareth

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References:
- Discovery could Endanger T.Rex Name
  - From: Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>
- Re: Discovery could Endanger T.Rex Name
  - From: Gareth Dyke <Gareth.Dyke@bristol.ac.uk>

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