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Re: SUCHOMIMUS = BARYONYX
In a message dated 11/2/02 11:27:55 AM Pacific Standard Time,
qilongia@yahoo.com writes:
<< At-a-glance estimates are crap, or just plain estimates. Sorry, but they
did this in the old days, pre-Simpson and the like, before the detailed
analysis of fossils and evolution were applied. It takes a detailed
analysis to determine anything. >>
Not a genus, or, for that matter, any higher Linnaean category, provided only
that you're not the proverbial man in the street but an interested and
experienced naturalist. If such an individual has to do detailed analysis to
distinguish populations of animals, the animals belong to the same genus, but
maybe in different species of that genus.