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Re: RAJASAURUS

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Subject: Re: RAJASAURUS
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
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--- darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:
> Re: _Rajasaurus_, I've just had a thought. Isn't the generic 
> name for Dixon's (1988) bradyphant _Rajasaurus_? I don't 
> have the volume to hand, it's at home.

Close -- the vernacular name for "Gregisaurus titanops" is "rajaphant". (I
don't see "bradyphant" anywhere.)

> The bradyphant is a fictional sauropod for those of you that 
> don't know. Jumping the gun here but... if this is a 
> preoccupation by a fictional name (a situation that Unwin 
> (1992) recognised as a potential problem) does it matter?

One would hard-pressed to produce a type specimen for "Gregisaurus"....

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References:
- Re: RAJASAURUS
  - From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk