Re: Many new references

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

Markus Moser (m.moser@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) wrote:

<The reverse is the case: Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis is formally
described in Christiansen & Bonde (2003: N. Jb.) and some information is
repeated in Bonde & Christiansen (2003: C. R. Palevol), where the authors
deliberately write "Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis Christiansen & Bonde
2003".>

  Authorship of the taxon is up to the authors, in any order they prefer,
or even to exclude authors for sake of one (in the latest _JVP_, Gayet,
Jégu, Bocquentin, and Negri, 2003, describe and discuss two new characoid
fish; however, the authorship of the first described species (from
Bolivia) is to Gayet and Jégu alone, whereas the second (from Brazil) is
to Bocquentin and Negri; sequence of authorship for a taxon can change in
a paper, and an author added not listed as an author _on_ the paper, as
occured when Barsbold and Perle described *Enigmosaurus mongoliensis* in
Barsbold's theropod monograph of 1983). But I think that because the
_Neues Jahrbuch_ paper is cited in the _Palevol_ paper without volume,
issue, or pagination, is striking of what was published first. However, in
the _Palevol_ paper, no such issue of authorship is designated, and the
taxon is provided and described without stating it will be published
elsewhere. This is not exactly nice if you intended to name it elsewhere.

  Based on this, the citation should be *Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis* 
Bonde and Christiansen, 2003. Whether this was intended as the original
cite is likely a matter of dating. For instance, they cite the _Neues
Jahrbuch_ paper to "Thus, the dromaeosaur from Bornholm most likely
represents a new genus and species [8], called Dromaeosauroides
bornholmensis." Though the language indicates another paper, since this
paper was released while both were in press and may have been effectively
published _prior_, the name may be stuck with Bonde and Christiansen.

  One can always seesaw and cite it as

  *Dromaeosauroides bornhomensis* Christiansen and Bonde, 2003 _non_ Bonde
and Christiansen, 2003 _vide_ Christiansen and Bonde, 2003

  but wouldn't that be clunky for a mistake?

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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