Re: "DIG A DINO" in Brussels, Belgium

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

I wrote:

<<For more info on "Olorotitan", which is a nomen nondescribarum>>

and David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote, feigning ignorance
at Latin:

<Nomen what?>

  I was just trying to make up a name that has been published but not
described, and is taken as a profered name. It's a nomen nudum, of course,
but you can describe that as well, as still be a nomen nudum. "Rinchenia"
is a nomen nudum for a described species, but the new hadrosaur is neither
described nor properly named, so I give it double black marks; "Rinchenia"
only gets one black mark.

  Maybe "nomen non descriptio" would be better....

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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