Re: FAQs on Priority of Names

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> As always, I welcome feedback -- particularly clarification on this
> point: According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1997, 2:547), ``in
> 1974 the name Brontosaurus was formally discarded''.  Really?  By
> whom?  Why?  Wasn't it already formally invalid?

Probably this alludes to the American Museum of Natural History that changed
the label, skull and tail end in AFAIK 1975. The museum is famous, Riggs
1903 is not...

*Brontosaurus* is a "junior subjective synonym" of *Apatosaurus*. The ICZN
isn't usually involved in such things, so there's nothing formal here AFAIK.
(Never trust normal encyclopaedias, or ones on animals, about dinosaurs...)

Isn't *Manospondylus* a nomen oblitum ("forgotten name"), means it hasn't
been used for 50 years and therefore become invalid? (The answer is
somewhere in the archives.)