Re: Darwin's young dead pet from Messel

[Jocelyn Falconnet <j.falconnet@gmail.com>]

David Marjanovic a écrit :
> > Stunning, stunning, stunning.
>
> Unfortunately, one of the stunning things about it is that there is no 
> phylogenetic analysis. Grand pronouncements about the total uprooting 
> of Paleogene primate phylogeny, yes, but no analysis. Just a few 
> characters optimized on a tree with three (!) taxa, one of which is 
> *Darwinius*.
Of course, this is quite surprising given the age and systematic 
position of this animal that they did not provided a detailed analyses 
of euprimates interrelationships. I am pretty sure it was submitted to 
Plos One because it is quickly published fastly. Well, we can give them 
credits for providing a rather detailed anatomical description, with a 
bit of morphometrical and paleobiological informations on Darwinius.

> Does PLoS ONE "deposit at least 100 identical and durable copies in 
> public libraries on at least five continents"? If not, the name 
> *Darwinius masillae* does not exist according to the ICZN...
Yeah, and that was the same problem with Maiacetus a few months ago (in 
the same journal).