Re: [dinosaur] "Yunyangosaurus" is not available

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

Gesendet:ÂMontag, 27. Januar 2020 um 23:40 Uhr
Von:Â"David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>

> [...]
>
> * The description of the non-dinosaur Carbonodraco, published late last year 
> (doi: 10.1098/rsos.191191 ), wasn't registered. The "correction" that came 
> out on Wednesday (doi: 10.1098/rsos.192198 ) is registered, but it only makes 
> the names Carbonodraco and C. lundi available if we generously assume that 
> Art. 13.3, 16.1 and 16.4** can be fulfilled by citation the way Art. 13.1 
> explicitly can (13.1.2***). If they can't be, then the names are still 
> unavailable. [...]

Oh, it's worse: I just found out that the registration number given in the 
correction is that of the 2019 paper. The correction is not _itself_ registered 
and therefore cannot make any names available at all. Articles 13 and 16 don't 
matter at this point.

Given that neither the 2019 paper nor the correction contain evidence of having 
been registered in ZooBank, "Carbonodraco" and "C. lundi" _remain_ unavailable. 
Art. 8.5.3 does not provide for retroactive registration. Only publications 
that contain evidence of having been registered can make new names available, 
and neither the original paper nor the correction fulfill this requirement.

I've finished the bibliographic work for the manuscript, am writing up the text 
right now, and will soon send it to the people who have expressed interest in 
being coauthors. The manuscript will ask the Commission to put the entire 
journals _Scientific Reports_, _Geology of the Intermountain West_ and the one 
where "Carbonodraco" and its correction were published, _Royal Society open 
science_, on the Official List of Works Approved as Available for Zoological 
Nomenclature. That would make Art. 8.5.3 irrelevant for all names published in 
these journals (past, present and future).