Re: [dinosaur] Gnathovorax, new herrerasaurid (open access)

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

Gesendet:ÂMontag, 11. November 2019 um 04:26 Uhr
Von:Â"Brad McFeeters" <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>

> Notably, Pacheco et al. (2019) seem to be the first study to recover 
> *Pisanosaurus* closer to Ornithischia than to Silesauridae, after taking into 
> account the studies that find it as a silesaurid.Â

The first published study, yes...

> Etymologically, is *Gnathovorx* the "devouring jaw," or the "devourer of 
> jaws"?

It's "the jaw-voracious one". Whether that means it devours jaws or _has_ jaws 
is left to context.

(Greek abounds in compound adjectives, at least in poetry. The area around 
Argos is routinely called "the horse-nourishing Argolid" in the Iliad, for 
instance.)