Re: New issue of JVP 2001(2) (semi-JOKE)

[Leonidus AK Giganotosaurus <alex@voyager.net>]

I've seen this way too much. I wish Spielberg had stuck with Deinonychus 
without switching names. Just think what the public dinosaur scene would be 
like then.

I've heard of the various dromaeosaurs usually referred to in a referential 
sense as essentially cretaceous canines. It kind of makes sense, if one thinks 
about it. Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes. Deinonychus,
Velociraptor, and Bambiraptor, just for instance. It reminds me of the 
'renamed' Oviraptor in Dinotopia, Ovinutrix. A bit of foresight, there, it 
seems, in relation to the find of eggs associated as Protoceratops
being classified as Oviraptor. Makes me wish renaming species was a bit easier, 
I'd probably push for Utahraptor becoming Utahlupus, or something similar. 
Maybe the next deinonychosaur find should be
named Saurilupus, if evidence for pack behavior was found. I think '-raptor' is 
overused, it's too associated with dromaeosaurs, any more 'raptors' would 
probably only make the matter worse.

Anyway, just my completely unprofessional thought on the matter.

(Wow. Boy am I glad I'm on this list, this is all so cool. I just need to make 
sure I'm not doing the incredibly idiotic informatin-asking, I always make a 
fool of myself.)

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7/12/01 10:27:26 PM, "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Rob Gay (rob_redwing@hotmail.com) wrote:
>
><I personally dislike Anythingraptor. I was talking to someone
>about _Eoraptor_, and they asked if it was as mean as the
>"Raptors" from Jurassic Park. Gah...same thing with oviraptors
>and such.>
>
>  AW, this is what comes of people not taking terminology in
>context.
>
>  In Osborn's usage, -raptor was used to specifically infer the
>etymology "snatcher" -- thus, "egg snatcher" ... only in uses
>where the term is colloquial, as in *Velociraptor*, which
>certainly isn't the "snatcher of swift [things]" as the
>etymology implies, does the name seem to fail. It is used (as
>described) in the sense of a small predator.
>
>  Both *Oviraptor* and *Conchoraptor* are well formed
>constructs, whereas *Velociraptor* and *Utahraptor* are not
>except for their suggestion as a predator. A modifier to imply
>the nature of a predator (_praedator_ is a Latin word as well,
>mind, meaning a hunter, and I have a mind to use this name [in
>part] in reference to a certain small theropod...).
>
>  Please, don't confuse _Jurassic Park_ with the usefulness of
>the word "raptor" when used _right_.
>
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>
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Leonidus AK Giganotosaurus
alex@voyager.net