Re: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

I agree, it's just ignorance. Respect is completely orthogonal to it. 
*Lazarussuchus* could have been deliberate, but that would surprise me (I 
mean, who knows the etymology of Lazarus...); it's much more likely a 
consequence of the fact that Latin isn't taught much in France. Philippe 
Taquet gave us *Lurdusaurus* and *Cristatusaurus* and, incidentally, insists 
that *Suchomimus* is a junior synonym of the latter; both should end 
in -osaurus rather than -usaurus.

> Ablative   "Confucius (as object of some prepositions)"

Also occurs without a preposition and then means "by means of" -- as in 
something being done or said "by Confucius".

> [...] Spanish speakers (who ought to know about gender  agreement) brought 
> us _Panphagia protos_...

Russian speakers, who certainly know about gender agreement, brought us 
*Hesperornis rossica* -- where the species name agrees with the Russian word 
for "bird", which is feminine, instead of with the Greek one, the gender of 
which you AFAIK can't tell by just looking at it. (They didn't just use the 
Russian rule either though, under which almost everything that ends in a 
consonant is masculine. Ironically, that would have produced the right 
result in this case.)

The difference is that (Fake) Latin species names that are adjectives 
automatically have to agree with their genera according to the ICZN and are 
automatically amended, while all others, explicitly even Greek ones, must 
not change. So, we're stuck with the female all-eatery (or whatever the 
strange choice of -ia implies) that is the first male one.