RE: New Papers and Story on Hagryphus

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Allan Edels wrote:

> CNN.com has a video on this entitled: "Fossils show 'Bird-like God of 
> Western Desert'".  Sorry, I cannot get the link to the vid - it's under the 
> news of Gene Pitney's death, and Katie Couric's announcement that she's 
> leaving NBC for CBS.

I didn't open the link.  When I saw "Western Desert" and "God-like" in the 
same sentence, I just assumed the story was about Dick Cheney.  :-o

Michael Mortimer wrote:

> You know, I get it when authors don't want to create new clade names 
> because the clade's especially provisional, or just to protect against an 
> abundance of names,

I think that last horse bolted a long time ago.

> but Yanornithiformes, Yanornithidae and Songlingornithidae already exist.  
> At SVP 2002, I think Clarke used Yanornithidae for the clade.

Songlingornithidae has priority over Yanornithidae; but I don't know if this 
matters any more.  Otherwise, using Yanornithiformes would bypass the issue 
of nomenclatural priority.  All of these clades (Yanornithiformes, 
Yanornithidae, Songlingornithidae) have yet to be defined.

Cheers

Tim