Re: The problem of informal names (was RE: "Ichabodcraniosaurus")

["Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>]

George Olshevsky wrote-

> << OK, OK, OK... :-) Certainly it is 100 % informal. Therefore I continued
to
>  write quotation marks and didn't add asterisks for italics. It is just
>  published. And it's obviously not serious, and of course not described or
>  whatever, so it would probably not enter the DML Dinosaur Genera List
>  anyway. >>
>
> Don't be so sure about this--I'm a pretty anal completist in this respect.

Indeed.  If "Gadolosaurus" (an incorrect translation of the cyrillic word
for hadrosaur) and "Elvisaurus" (an early, suggested name for
Cryolophosaurus) are included, "Ichabodcraniosaurus" sounds like fair game.

Mickey Mortimer