Re: Types of Types

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Dann Pigdon (dannj@alphalink.com.au) wrote:

<What is a holotype based only on a cast of the original? I seem to
remember Kakuru being referred to as a "plastitype" or something similar.>

  This is a plastoholotype, and can only be used if there is not "true"
fossil available. Same for casts of destroyed footprints if they are types
of anything. But in this case, I do not think the infillings of cynodont
burrows count as plastoholotypic, as they are natural and not artificial.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
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