Re: Eponymous Taxa [was: RE: new _Scleromochlus_ ref]

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/99 7:44:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU writes:

> >I'm not a big fan of Ornithosuchia as the name for the sister stem to
>  >Pseudosuchia within Archosauria either.
>          Actually, I'm pleased with the name itself, but the association 
with
>  a previously named genus which may be outside of the definition bothers me.

It's Pseudosuchia that bugs me, i.e. the fact that it means "false 
crocodiles" when it in fact CONTAINS all the TRUE crocodiles!  That and 
Sereno's Paraves, "beside birds", which INCLUDES birds.

Take half a second to think about all the members of a clade before naming 
it, dammit!

--Nick P.