Re: ICZN or NOT!!!

[Steven Mahon <floridamahon@yahoo.com>]

--- "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> That is not the rule.
> The rule is that the first taxon of familial rank
> (including superfamilies,
> subfamilies, tribes, and subtribes) gets priority.
> 
> I believe Hypacrosaurinae was named, but (CMIIW)
> Lambeosaurinae has predence by
> ICZN rules, as it was named earlier. (Even if
> _Hypacrosaurus_ was named before
> _Lambeosaurus_.)

But, doesn't family-level names (& below) get
automatically named when a genus is defined? I got
that also from your old site. (i.e. Ornithomimini
implied 1890 [the year Ornithomimus was named]). Am I
mis-interpretating it, or is it another Dinosauricon
error?

    Thanks Again,
      Steven Mahon

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