Re: Standardization and Re: bats & battalions (+ pentastomids & marsupials)

["Tim Williams" <tijawi@hotmail.com>]

> From David Marjanovic:

> what about sticking pan- in front of your stem groups, which are really 
> easy to define, and using the traditional names (Aves, Crocodi/ylia....) 
> for > something else? Panornithes ("all birds"), Pancrocodilia ("all 
> crocs"), Panarchosauria, Panamniota...?

I think you would get Pan-demonium.  George's stem-based phylogenetic 
nomenclature is already confusing enough.  ;-)


> Would end many quarrels with others, wouldn't it? And maybe something like
> neo- for crown groups? (Okay, Neosauropoda isn't exactly...)

Nor for Neotheropoda, Neotetanurae, Neornithischia, Neornithopoda, 
Neoceratopsia, Neotherapsida, ...




Tim


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