Re: [dinosaur] Party like it's 1758!

[Paul P <turtlecroc@yahoo.com>]

On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 06:37:36 AM UTC, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> As Peter Dodson succinctly put it in 'The Horned Dinosaurs' (back in 1996); 
> "The problem is that when you show such restraint somebody else will very 
> likely come along and rename your dinosaur". 

Yes, but at the same time, no one wants to name a genus that in all probability 
will end up a junior synonym of something else, or worse, a nomen dubium. 

> ...Having monospecific genera limited to their respective type species would 
> prevent the practice of using genera as wastebaskets.

Yes, but the flip side is:  there would be an explosion of new generic names, 
many of which would certainly wind up synonymized with something else at a 
later date.

    Paul P.