RE: Enantiornithine or enantiornithean?

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ken Kinman wrote:

>      Enantiornithine does pose a potential problem that the other examples 
> do not, because it is a typified name (based on a generic name).  When I 
> first saw this spelling, subfamily automatically popped into my head 
> (luckily the context made it clear that it was not referring to a 
> subfamily).  For this case in particular, I would agree than Enantiornithean 
> is preferable.
>      I see little potential problem with tetranurine, ornithurine, or 
> neornithine, 

Unless someone were to name genera _Tetanurus_, _Ornithurus_, or
_Neornis_, and accompanying subfamily.

> but would personally prefer tetranuran, ornithuran, and 
> neornithean.

Yes; if not for the above reason then at least to be consistent with
"enantiornithean".

> But if you use either variant (or even another slightly 
> different variant ending), anyone familiar with these clades will know what 
> you mean.

Very true.

highly abridged version of what I use on my site:

"-idae" --> "-id"
"-inae" --> "-ine"
"-ae" --> "-an"
"-formes" --> "-form"
"-es" --> "ean"

One exception I just thought of: for Primates, "es" --> "e". Would
"neornithe" and "enantiornithe" be more proper? (Perhaps
"enantiornithiforme" instead of "enantiornithiform", too ....)

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