[dinosaur] Public service announcement was IGNORING A DEINODONT

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

Gesendet:ÂDienstag, 13. MÃrz 2018 um 20:42 Uhr
Von:Â"John Schneiderman" <john-schneiderman@cox.net>
Betreff:Â[dinosaur] RE {dinosaur] IGNORING A DEINODONT

> The original material discovered,Âwas believed at the time to belong to a 
> new type of ceratopsid. The genotype (Amer. Mus. Cope Coll. 3982) of 
> Manospondylus originally consisted of two dorsal vertebrae, which Cope 
> recorded verbally to Hatcher as from South Dakota. Of these original two 
> dorsal vertebra one was figured by Hatcher and correctly referred to the 
> Theropoda. Unfortunately, the remaining vertebra has been misplaced in or 
> lost from the American Museum collections. It most nearly resembles in size 
> and other characters the posterior cervical or first dorsal of Tyrannosaurus 
> rex (Amer. Mus. 5866). This type is so incomplete and so imperfectly 
> preserved that the genus and species which were founded upon it are regarded 
> as indeterminate.

First, can somebody please drive a *Therizinosaurus* finger claw through the 
undead heart of the misuse of the word "genotype" to mean "type species"? 
_Genus_ is an endingless neuter consonant-stem word which becomes _gener-_ 
whenever something is added (e.g. _sui generis_ "of its own kind"), so the word 
for this meaning should have been "generotype" to begin with. Further, 
"genotype" already forms a pair with "phenotype". Add to that the fact that 
"type species" doesn't need a synonym, and there's simply no reason why 
"genotype" should have two meanings within biology.

Second... I thought *Manospondylus* was a nomen oblitum and *Tyrannosaurus* a 
nomen protectum? Has *Manospondylus* been used as valid since 1899 (Art. 
23.9.1.1)? If not, has nobody invoked Art. 23.9.2 yet?
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nhm.ac.uk_hosted-2Dsites_iczn_code_index.jsp-3Fnfv-3Dtrue-26article-3D23-239&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=lAlDZAR49VDIvXkqkpSI7YV6-r3QLFpkBBCq0IFU3jw&s=ITQ3HfaCg5fcp2vodu3IfYaf9Xgc0bNnMUk-JGBUuT8&e=
(*Tyrannosaurus* rather obviously fulfills 23.9.1.2...)