Re: Fw: Doing an "Ultraraptor"

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

Thomas de Wilde () wrote:

<Actually Latin's C was always pronounced K, or did I misunderstand
something here?>

  In later Latin, "C" has taken a softer meaning. Older Latin did not have
a "C" to my knowledge.

<... and wasn't Centrosaurus once renamed Eucentrosaurus?>

  Yes.

  This (http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/1994Dec/msg00067.html) explains the
status of the name "Centrosaurus" as applied to a reptile and why it
doesn't count.

  This (http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2000Jan/msg00397.html) explains
EXACTLY why it doesn't count.

  There is no risk of loosing *Centrosaurus* -- or *Kentrosaurus* -- due
to synonymy. IF *Centrosaurus* Lambe (1904) were to be lost as a
preoccupied synonym of *Phrynosoma* Wiegmann (1828), and the name
*Eucentrosaurus* Chure and McIntosh (1989) allowed to replace it, this
will not affect the status of *Kentrosaurus* Hennig (1915): A replacement
name is no longer required if the difference between names is off by one
letter (ICZN, 1999, Article 55, rule 55.4, "One-letter names"), as is the
case here. Thus, *Kentrurosaurus* Hennig (1916) is a synonym of
*Kentrosaurus* Hennig (1915) as an unneccessary replacement name.

  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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