Songzia

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Mickey,
    I believe Songzia is still classified in Order Gruiformes.
    It may not even really be worthy of a whole family of its own, so maybe 
the family will be placed in the synonymy of Rallidae or some other family.  
Then we wouldn't have to worry about how to spell it.
             ------Ken
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> From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>
> Reply-To: Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: To Fred Bervoets
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:42:43 -0700
>
> Fred Ruhe wrote-
>
> > In 1990 Hou described Songzia heidangkouensis and reffered it to a new
> > family: Songzidae. This can't be correct, it must be Songziidae. What to
> use?
> > We must know what we are talking about, whether english, dutch or 
> chinese
> > speaking, that's the only important thing, not grammar, that's for other
> > students, so I will use the name Songzidae, that's the name the family 
> was
> > given, grammaticly incorrect as it may be, but it's the name, Songziidae
> is
> > incorrect.
>
> Out of curiosity, what is Songzia exactly?
>
> Mickey Mortimer

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