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Re: New taxa from the Lower-to-mid K volume

To: TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu, th81@umail.umd.edu, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: New taxa from the Lower-to-mid K volume
From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:47:42 EST
Reply-to: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

In a message dated 10/28/98 9:21:37 AM EST, TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu
writes:

<< Judging from another of the papers in the same volume, the name 
 proposed for this one is "Anamantarx ramaljonesi".  There also 
 appears another ankylosaurian nomen dubium - "Nodocephalosaurus 
 kirtlandi", from later in the Cretaceous. >>

These are properly _nomina nuda_, not _nomina dubia_. Names without scientific
descriptions, same scientific status as vernacular names. Pain in the neck.

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