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Nomenclatural question
(We had a discussion of the "Eu-" prefix a little while back. At the
other end of taxon-nomenclature...)
A number of taxa with names like Blankomorpha and Blankiformes have
been defined in recent years to cover extinct critters which, before
the cladistic revolution, would have been called ancestral Blanks,
but which have had the bad luck not to leave living descendents and
so are "outside the crown group Blank." My sense is that when both
suffixes have been used, Blankomorpha is the more inclusive. Is
there actually an established convention governing this?
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Allen Hazen
Philosophy Department
University of Melbourne