RE: They did it again

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> As an aside, *is there a good term* for the collective of species of 
> vertebrates that lived in the Mesozoic era, that fill the
public's
> imagination, including the pterosaurs and plesiosaurs and everything else 
> that's not a fish, amphibian, nor mammaliaform? Because
> this will happen forever until there's a substitute term. It's the same 
> reason we citizens of the US keep calling ourselves
Americans
> even though plenty of other countries could do the same - there's not another 
> good term for it.

Why cluster these together? It isn't even that Mark Trail was doing that: they 
had a Permian basal synapsid in there, so it isn't
even Mesozoic!

Why not simply "prehistoric animals"? An accurate term, and one that 
encompasses all paleofauna regardless of Era or life habit.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216                        
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661               

Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843

Mailing Address:        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                        Department of Geology
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                        University of Maryland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Box, Rick
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:37 AM
> To: Brian Hathaway
> Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: They did it again
> 
> The Washington Post is the wrong place to complain for a "Mark Trail" comic 
> strip - King Features (or Jack Elrod himself) would be
the
> place to go.
> 
> As an aside, *is there a good term* for the collective of species of 
> vertebrates that lived in the Mesozoic era, that fill the
public's
> imagination, including the pterosaurs and plesiosaurs and everything else 
> that's not a fish, amphibian, nor mammaliaform? Because
> this will happen forever until there's a substitute term. It's the same 
> reason we citizens of the US keep calling ourselves
Americans
> even though plenty of other countries could do the same - there's not another 
> good term for it.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Brian Hathaway <hammeris1@att.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Understood, but, any paper in any country would almost surely do the
> > same thing as far as a cartoon is concerned ... this one just happened
> > to be cited by Mr. Paul. Rather than punish the nationality why not
> > instead blame "the media" because the problem is worldwide.  Shutting
> > up now.  :-)
> >
> > ________________________________
> > >From: dale mcinnes
> > >Um .. it's an American publication .. [I could be wrong here]
> >
> 
> 
> 
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