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RE: Galveosaurus vs Galvesaurus



Hi,

If anyone has a pdf of this article, I would like to have a copy...

This is probably the first article that refers to the "Archive",
although I discourage people using "Archive" as a source...

"Errare humanum est", and "Archive" especially so... :)


Cheers!

--Mikko Haaramo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Tim Williams
> Sent: 16. toukokuuta 2006 22:07
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Galveosaurus vs Galvesaurus
> 
> 
> Under the heading of "And I thought I'd seen everything," 
> comes this...
> 
> Sánchez-Hernández, B. (2006)  The new sauropod from Spain: 
> _Galveosaurus_ or _Galvesaurus_?  Zootaxa 1201: 63-68.
> 
> Abstract: "On August 11th, 2005 I published a paper in which 
> I described a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from 
> the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Galve, Spain: 
> _Galveosaurus herreroi_.  Unfortunately, four months later, a 
> second paper based on the same dinosaur remains was published 
> by different authors.  In this second paper, the authors gave 
> the specimens a similar binomial name to the name I gave 
> (with a difference of one letter, an ?o?): _Galvesaurus 
> herreroi_.  In that paper, available on-line in pdf format 
> from January 2006, the authors not only ignored my work, but 
> they included a publication date: 1st July, 2005.  
> Nevertheless, the article is included in the issue 15th of 
> July-December, as could be read in every page of that work.  
> The issue was published on 18th December 2005, but according 
> to the ICZN code (articles 21 and 23), the date of 
> publication of the Barco et al. (2005) paper should be 
> considered as December 31st, 2005 and based on the Principle 
> of Priority, the name _Galveosaurus herreroi_ 
> Sánchez-Hernández, 2005 has priority and _Galvesaurus 
> herreroi_ Barco, Canudo, Cuenca-Bescós and Ruíz-Omeñaca, 2005 
> should be considered as a junior synonym of the former and 
> therefore, an invalid name."
> 
> To summarize, in 2005 Barbara Sánchez-Hernández described a 
> sauropod from Galve, Spain, under the name _Galveosaurus 
> herreroi_ in the journal Zootaxa. 
>   That same year, Barco &c described a sauropod, also from 
> Galve, that they named _Galvesaurus herreroi_ in an issue of 
> the magazine Naturaleza Aragonesa.  The two names are based 
> on the same holotype material, which was deposited at the 
> same museum (Museo Paleontológico de Galve).  Apparently the 
> two sets of researchers didn't cross paths before hand with 
> regards to the description of the Galve sauropod.  In this 
> 2006 paper in Zootaxa, Sánchez-Hernández claims that her 
> publication has date priority, because even though her paper 
> was published in August, and the other paper claims to be 
> published in July, the issue publication date of the latter 
> is given as July-December, and the publication did not come 
> out until December, 2005.
> 
> In support of her case, a number of websites are tendered 
> that mention the name _Galveosaurus_ soon after official publication.
> 
> http://libcat.amnh.org/search/tZootaxa2005/tzootaxa2005/-2,0,0
> ,B/crC1106711&FF=tzootaxa&1,1
> http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Aug/msg00301.html,
> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveosaurus,
> http://lesdinos.free.fr/actualites.htm,
> http://personal2.stthomas.edu/jstweet/new.htm,
> http://dinonews.net/forum/ctus.php?return=1&cit=8786,
>
http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Arch
osauria/Sauropodomorpha/Sauropoda.htm,
> http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Dec/msg00274.html
> 
> As you can see, two of these are DML pages.  (Another claim 
> to fame for the
> DML.)
> 
> BTW, I would say that irrespective of which genus (_Galveosaurus_ or
> _Galvesaurus_) has date priority, both names are valid in the 
> nomenclatural sense.  So when Sánchez-Hernández says: 
> "_Galveosaurus_ Sánchez-Hernández
> 2005 has priority and _Galvesaurus herreroi_ Barco, Canudo, 
> Cuenca-Bescós and Ruíz-Omeñaca, 2005 should be considered as 
> a junior synonym of the former and therefore, an invalid 
> name."... the name _Galvesaurus_ is still valid under ICZN 
> rules; it is just relegated to a junior objective synonym of 
> _Galveosaurus_.  A genus or species has to be valid in order 
> for it to be a junior synonym.
> 
> References
> 
> Barco, J.L., Canudo, J.L., Cuenca-Bescós, G. & Ruíz-Omeñaca, 
> J.I. (2005) Un nuevo dinosaurio saurópodo, _Galvesaurus 
> herreroi_ gen. nov., sp. nov., del tránsito 
> Jurásico-Cretácico en Galve (Teruel, NE de España). 
> Naturaleza Aragonesa 15: 4-17.
> 
> Sánchez-Hernández, B. (2005) _Galveosaurus herreroi_, a new 
> sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo Formation 
> (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain. Zootaxa 1034: 1?20.
> 
> The paper also cites Justin and I as references!
> 
> Tweet, J. (2005) What´s New (17/08/2005), Thescelosaurus! 
> Available from: 
> http://personal2.stthomas. edu/jstweet/new.htm (23/01/2006).
> 
> Williams, T. (2005) Galveosaurus herreroi, new sauropod from 
> the Late Jurassic of Spain.
> Archives of the dinosaur mailing list, Fri, 19 Aug 2005, The 
> Claveland [sic] Museum of Natural History Museum. Available 
> from: http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Aug/msg00301.html
> (23/01/2006).
> 
> Williams, T. (2005) Dino Genera & Species List 2005 (was Re: 
> New versiton of Dinosaur Encyclopaedia).  Archives of the 
> dinosaur mailing list, Fri, 16 Dec 2005, The Claveland Museum 
> of Natural History Museum. Available from: 
> http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Dec/msg00274.html (23/ 01/2006).
> 
> 
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