Re: dino naming conventions

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, M Murphy wrote:

> Can anyone point me in the direction of a document outlining
> paleontological naming conventions, esp. concerning the various
> conditions under which one name gets used over another?  Please reply
> offlist if this is not of general interest.

Species, genera, and families (and ranks based on those ranks --
subgenera, superfamilies, etc.) are governed by International Commission
on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) <http://www.iczn.org/>.

For higher taxa, well, there is no formal set of rules -- not yet, anyway.
There is one in preparation: PhyloCode. There is a draft at
<http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/>.

PhyloCode proposes to have only two types of formal taxa: species and
clades.

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