Re: New issue of JVP 2001(2) (semi-JOKE)

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/01 8:06:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, alex@voyager.net
writes:


> I've seen this way too much. I wish Spielberg had stuck with Deinonychus
> without switching names. 


My understanding is that Spielberg followed Crichton, and Crichton followed
Paul, who had synonymized _Deinonychus_ with _Velociraptor_ in 1988.


>    Maybe the next deinonychosaur find should be
> named Saurilupus, if evidence for pack behavior was found.
 

You know, I kinda like that.  Other alternatives would be "Saurolycus" (an
all-Greek version of the same thing) or "Sauralopex" (Greek for
"lizard-fox").  Also good for non-mammalian therapsids.

--Nick P.