Livezey & Zusi: a postscript

[Stephan Pickering <stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com>]

A brief emendation. The Livezey/Zusi paper,
Higher-order phylogenetics of modern Aves based on
comparative anatomy, was presented by Bradley Livezey
at the February 1999 symposium honouring John Ostrom,
but he opted not to have it published in the
Gauthier/Gall compendium but in a journal,
unfortunately thinking it would not receive proper
attention? Although I like the stated purpose of 
Nomina Anatomica Avium, Jacques Gauthier has brought
to my attention, to be sure, that the nomenclature,
well-established for all reptiles ("birds" = feathered
reptiles = simply living dinosaurs), of Biology of the
Reptilia especially, is far more useful for dinosaur
work, in that English, not Latin, is the language of
dinosaur science. Eventually, the Nomina Anatomica
Avium will have to be emended to fit with Biology of
the Reptilia, an appendix to be Nomina Anatomica Dinosaurologica?

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