Re: Pterosaur questions (joke) - and a response to "El Paleo-Freak"

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote: 
> 
> > > >1) Is Gallodactylus a synonym of Cycnorhamphus? 
> > > 
> > > In the U.S., _Gallodactylus_ is now known as "Freedomdactylus". 
> > 
> >Too bad *Eleutherodactylus* is preoccupied. 
> 
> It was a tongue-in-cheek joke in my part. 
 
Just for the record, I got it -- eleutheros is free in Greek. But wait, 
freedom is eleutheria... I think with that extra i the name is not 
preoccupied... :-) 
 
> The web can be a scary place. 
 
It can be everything. It the most human "place" of all. :-) 
 
Dinosaurs. Er... 
 
A dicynodont surviving over 100 Ma in a place that was AFAIK hardly 
isolated is peculiar. More so than *Koolasuchus*, because Early and Middle 
Jurassic relatives of the latter are known... 

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