Re: Burpee Recollections

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

Steve Brusatte wrote-
> us, Carr also discussed his view that none of the stated diagnostic
> characters of Bakker et al. are valid, meaning that if the Burpee specimen 
> is not a juvenile _Tyrannosaurus_, it would require a new name.

Funny, I thought that if a taxon didn't need to be renamed simply for lack 
of diagnostic characters.  I thought it could just be re-diagnosed...

I heard that HP Paul's talk has interesting conclusions for eumaniraptoran 
taxonomy, like the synonymy of certain genera.



Nick Gardner

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