Re: [dinosaur] dinosaur-l Digest Tue, 22 Dec 2020

To: Ethan Schoales <ethan.schoales@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] dinosaur-l Digest Tue, 22 Dec 2020

From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:06:29 -0800

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Unlovely and/or wrongly formed:

Preposing simili- is a clunky way of trying to capture the meaning âsimilar to.â What happened to good old -oides (or the somewhat less common -aster)?

âAbitusavisâ is supposed to be derived from *abitus* âdepartureâ, but the -s in *abitus* isnât really part of the word: itâs a grammatical ending indicating case and number. If you really want âdeparture bird,â it would be *Abituavis*.

âNick Pharris

On Dec 22, 2020, at 10:51 PM, Ethan Schoales <ethan.schoales@gmail.com> wrote:

ï
What do you mean by that?

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:10 AM Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:
Mickey Mortimer wrote:

âJust as an example, I just checked Similiyanornis and Abitusavis that were described recently, and that's true for them. We would be losing a lot of names this way.â

No great loss, as far as those two are concerned. Ugh.

âNick Pharris