Re: Syntarsus says farewell...

["Øyvind M. Padron" <gorgosaur@hotmail.com>]

> > > A trio of entomologists have recently published a nomenclatural note
> > > renaming the Early Jurassic coelophysid Megapnosaurus.  The etymology 
> is
> > > Greek megas (big), apnoos (dead), and sauros (lizard).
>
> No!!!  Please tell me that that atrocity will not become the official name!
> "Big dead lizard" would be the worst Dinosaur name imaginable.
>
> Poor Syntarus... I always liked that name... Still the laws of nomenclature
> must be upheld.

I had a little bump in my throat as i let Syntarsus go from my cladogram, 
and replaced it with Megapnosaurus...

-Øyvind M. Padron
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