Re: BRONTOSAURUS FOREVER!

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/17/02 10:44:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
garrison@efn.org writes:

<< Brent Jones wrote:
 
 >Of course, if I were asked to WEIGH in on this issue, i would come out
 >very strongly for using Brontosaurus. Such a cool name! 
 
 I agree, plus it has a bombastic quality that "Apatosaurus" never will! >>

I used the name Brontosauria for the taxon comprising sauropods and 
prosauropods back in 1991, so there's some formal basis for calling these 
dinosaurs brontosaurs. Unfortunately, the sister group, Segnosauria, is now 
in Theropoda, so Brontosauria essentially becomes a junior synonym of 
Sauropodomoprha. I think it's a better-formed name for that group than 
Sauropodomorpha, however, and since ICZN rules do not apply at this taxonomic 
level, I would encourage everyone everywhere to use Brontosauria in 
preference to Sauropodomorpha.