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RE: Othniel Charles Marsh

Aha  -cool, so Marsh 'wins'...and what proportion of them are still valid?
(presumably Marsh has the higher?)
Cas
 
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There are a lot of problems with this database. For example, Marsh did not
name  Brontosaurus montanus in 1877 as implied, rather Atlantosaurus
montanus Mrash 1877 was referred to B. montanus by Kuhn in 1965. The correct
notation, as defined by ICZN 51.3, should be Brontosaurus montanus (Marsh
1877) or Brontosaurus montanus (Marsh 1877) Kuhn 1965 [ICZN Recommendation
51G].

In reality, Marsh named 86 species and Cope 56.

Ken

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology & Chief Preparator Department of
Earth Sciences Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205 USA