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Re: Undefined names

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Undefined names
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:00:17 -0400
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Quoting Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>:

> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only published group for Caudipteryx, is
> > not "Caudipterygidae", but instead, the poorly named "Caudipteriidae".
> 
> I'm always confusing that with Yandangornidae.  One is official because the
> ICZN rules changed that year, one's not.

So just use the etymologically correct forms for both.

Don't let the ICZN foster mediocrity!

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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- Undefined names
  - From: "Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>
- Re: Undefined names
  - From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>

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