RE: Brachytrachelopan mesai [was Short-necked dinosaur challenges accepted theory]

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>:

>  The name is rather confusing in an etymological standpoint: the Mesa 
> family's
> short-necked sheep-shepherd. The trivial name honors Mesa and his family, but
> the name is modified to be a masculine singular genitive, rather than a
> collective genitive (no "orum").

Thus, while the name may have been *intended* to honor the entire Mesa 
clan, it
does not in fact do so, instead referring only to Mr. Daniel Mesa himself.

Nick Pharris
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan