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Re: galloping indricotherium

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 Vorompatra@aol.com wrote:

> OFF ON A TANGENT: I seem to recall a move to rename this beast
> "Paraceratherium" some years ago--did it not "take"?

I don't think it was a renaming, just a discovery of synonymy, much like
with _Apatosaurus_ (=_Brontosaurus_), _Gastornis_ (=_Diatryma_), and I
think _Daenodon_ (=_Dinohyus_).

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