Re: Goofy dinosaur names: (combined answer)

["T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>]

On 12/12/06, David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
> Are you sure it's named after him? The -orum ending implies that Stan and Winston are two different people.

As I recall, it was supposed to be named after the studio.

> > (Although you could make a good defense of "place-name-a-saurus"
> > names by pointing out that they never turn out to be inaccurate
> > --unless the animal turns out not to be reptilian, of course.)
>
> Lacertilian, you mean. (Google for "Sauria", and...)

Well, there are so many non-lacertilian "-saurus" names that I think
the ending can safely be interpreted as "reptilian" (or "non-avialan
reptilian", perhaps--Avisaurus and Soroavisaurus excluded).
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