Re: BYE BYE PHOBETOR

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 11:44 AM 4/23/98 GMT0BST, darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:
>A number of recent pterosaur papers make the point that _Phobetor_ 
>Bakhurina 1986 is preoccupied, thus the pterosaur requires a new 
>name. Does anyone know what the original taxon _Phobetor_ is?

   For whatever it's worth:

Phobetor Bakhurina 1986 "frightening one"
fo-BEE-tor (Gr. phobetor "one causing fear"; in mythology, Phobetor was one
of the sons of Somnus "Sleep," who took the shape of snakes and wild
animals to inspire terror in humans) (m) alluding to the strange appearance
of its skull, with a small crest and upturned pincer-like jaws.
(Preoccupied by Phobetor Krøyer 1844 (Pisces).) Pterodactyloidea
Dsungaripteridae E. Cret. CAs. [to be renamed] 

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