Re: Saurus plurals

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

I wrote:

<<Dinogeorge has expounded on the -orum, -arum 
convention in taxa names, effectively derived from the
Latin *sorum*, a heap or pile, or bunch, of something
(or someONES).>>

<Don't know whether this is true; all I know is that
-orum and -arum are the plural genitive inflections
and are conventionally used when two or more people
are being honored in a species name.>

  I see. I just came across this as I researched
dinosaur name etymologies, and there it was, after
looking up *Maiasaura peeblesorum*, the "good-mother
lizard, a heap of Peebles" almost literally. I've
probably jumped the gun, then.

===
Jaime A. Headden

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