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RE: Nomenclature: Maastrichtidelphys meurismeti

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> K and T Dykes
>
> There must be other species named after two people with different family 
> names somewhere.  I tried various species lists
> (fish, spiders, insects, squiggly things).  None would admit to it.


Here's one:

_Utahraptor ostrommaysorum_, after Ostrom and Mays.

However, it was **originally** _U. ostrommaysi_, and emmended after George 
Olshevsky (great proponent of the "-orum" suffix) pointed
this out.

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