Provincialists Name Provincial Dinosaurs

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

In one sideline, I have noticed the brevity of dinosaurs ending in
unconventional stems, or by anything other than "standard" name formats
(e.g., -saurus, -raptor, -mimus, -pteryx, etc.) to have been named from
within a particular country by a countryman. For example, the Mongolian
Barsbold Rinchen named *Ingenia* from Mongolia, and this also serves as a
prime example of probably the only unconventionally stemmed or un-stemmed
name of a dinosaur from Asia, named by an Asian. By contrast, North
America and Europe, most of which occur in England, have numerous taxa
with atypical or uncommon naming conventions, or lacking conventions
entirely, named by countrymen/-women/-persons.

  So, I am wondering if an impromptu list or discussion of names of
dinosaurs, or those taxa that are actually validly named (* see note
below), might be entertained and such a list might eventually go up online
as perhaps a general interest list (along such lines as biggest dinosaurs,
etc.). I do not, however, consider such a discussion neccessarily
endorsing of a racist attitude, given continental or provincial bias of
naming and named by criteria, because this is not my intent with this
opening. For instance, the Australian taxa named by the Rich's should not
be considered, as the Rich's are themselves not Australian. 

* = this excludes *Scrotum,* which was a Latin joke and never intended to
refer to a animal name in the sense of Linné, whose treatise on taxonomy
wasn't published until after *Scrotum* was first used -- it may also
exclude *Rutellum* as that name was similarly probably never intended to
refer to a latinized scientific referrence name, and also predates Linné's
treatise.

  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)

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
http://search.yahoo.com