Re: Ceratops (was RE: Pterosaur diversity (was: Re: Waimanu))

[Jay <sappororaptor@yahoo.com>]

I'd say that Oviraptoridae would be a genus name-based taxon, though there is no
"Oviraptorosaurus" to provide base Oviraptorosauria on.




--- "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jay (sappororaptor@yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> <Another minor detail to note is that the group Dinosauria was named by Owen
> first, when there was no Dinosaurus. Dinosaurus was named in 1845. The naming
> of higher level taxa without a name-giving genus is a common thing 
> (Saurischia,
> Ornithischia, Theropoda, Predentata, Oviraptorosauria to name a few) has 
> always
> been a common practice.>
> 
>   All of the names fall under the above mentioned category, save for the last,
> which Barsbold named for *Oviraptor*, though it was named as an order. He used
> it to split *Oviraptor* from *Ornithomimus* in preparation for the erection of
> new genera in both Oviraptoridae and Ornithomimidae, the former of which he 
> had
> named just a year earlier. This was done to split *Oviraptor* from
> ornithomimids in which taxon it had been included for the some odd decades
> before this nomenclatural act. Good move I'd say in retrospect.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
> Jaime A. Headden
> http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/
> 
> "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
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