Re: [dinosaur] Utahraptor + Dino-odor + K-Pg impact fires + Edops + more

To: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>, dinosaur-l@usc.edu

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Utahraptor + Dino-odor + K-Pg impact fires + Edops + more

From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:35:09 -0800

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It's not out of the question that the name Edops is also a pun on Latin edo "glutton" since Romer could have spelled the name "Oedops" (like Oedipus "swollen foot") instead of with an "e." The species name Edaphosaurus boanerges (meaning "vociferous orator"--derived from a term in the Bible) is almost certainly a joke about the small size of the holotype jaw, fitted to an oversize skull from another species in the original composite mount at the Harvard museum.

http://www.websters1913.com/words/BoanergesÂÂ

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:54 AM David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

Good to have that cleared up! I thought Romer must have been making fun of someone named Ed.

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(There is a captorhinid named Reiszorhinus, and people who work on rhynchosaurs have long been waiting to find one they can name "Bentonognathus".)

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Von:Â"Ben Creisler" <bcreisler@gmail.com>

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Temnospondyls: A new year of gluttony: Edops

https://bryangee.weebly.com/blog/a-new-year-of-gluttony-edops

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Note that Romer said the meaning of the name Edops is "swollen face"--so his etymology would be from Greek oidos "swelling":

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Doi)%3Ddos

The Latinized spelling could be oedo- or edo-, the same way Greek oikos "house" became eco- in ecology, economics, etc.

However, the spelling also looks like Latin edo, meaning a glutton, thus the confusion over the meaning of the name.