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Re: The problem of informal names (was RE: "Ichabodcraniosaurus")

At 7:07 PM -0800 1/17/02, Jaime A. Headden wrote: 
Steve  Brusatte (dinoland@lycos.com) wrote:

 I may be dead wrong here, but I actually thought that William Hammer was
 seriously considering naming _Cryolophosaurus_ "Elvisaurus" at one point
 (IIRC, the name "Elvisaurus" appeared in a children's book as a
 nickname).  I, therefore, would separate "Elvisaurus" from a strict
 nickname like "Stan," "Sue," or "Willo."


  Consider yourself deceased ... :) Elvisaurus is a nickname coined by
Jeff Hecht in _Prehistoric Times_. You may check the archives. There was
some discussion of those for this reason.

I plead innocent; I neither coined the name nor wrote for Prehistoric Times, although I did write about the original discovery for New Scientist before the beast was named. -- Jeff Hecht