All In A Name (was Re: New dino 'links major landmasses')

[Mark Hallett <marksabercat@yahoo.com>]

--- Garrison Hilliard <garrison@efn.org> wrote:
> New dino 'links major landmasses' 
> 
> A cache of dinosaurs discovered in Niger may
> challenge our understanding of
> continental formation, US scientists have claimed
> this week. 
> One of the dinosaurs - Rugops - was a wrinkle-faced
> carnivore, which lived about
> 95 million years ago. 
>  
> 
> Rugops , whose name means "first wrinkle face"<<

Actually, the more correct translation for this
abelisaurid's name from Latin should be "first rough
eye" ("rugus"= rough, and "ops"= eye) alluding to the
extreme rugosity of the supraorbital areas. 

--Mark Hallett  
 
 



        
                
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