Re: Prehistoric Park

[dinoboygraphics@aol.com]

> > > If you say "naaah, they're a bit too different for my taste to be in 
the same genus", nobody can stop you. <<<

I can stop you! (Lovingly caresses the shoulder-mounted fully automatic 
anti-tank bazooka that the U.S. Constitution guarantees... )


Scott Hartman
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Wyoming Dinosaur Center
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Thermopolis, WY 82443
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-----Original Message-----
From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Prehistoric Park

> Hey! Wasn't _Incisivosaurus gauthieri_ synonymized with
> _Protarchaeopteryx_? Must not be official yet.

It is official -- that means _published_. Whether you accept this or 
not is solely at your very own discretion. "Taxonomic freedom". This is 
where the term "subjective junior synonym" comes from. If you say 
"naaah, they're a bit too different for my taste to be in the same 
genus", nobody can stop you.
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