Re: Arthurdactylus conandoyle....what?

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

Nick Pharris (npharris@umich.edu) wrote:

<Well, unless the species name is intended to indicate that the animal
actually lived on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it had better be _conandoylei_.>

  The taxon was originally coined as *Arthurdactylus conan-doylei* to
honor the author of a book locating a northern South American plateau
inhabited by dinosaurs and pterosaurs, reflecting the Brazilian Araripe
Plateau (the book was about a Venezuelan plateau, but hey, the implication
fits). The name has been emmended to *A. conandoylei*, and any instance of
*A. conandoylensis* is internet chatter.

  Rather fantastically long-armed pterosaur...

  Cheers,

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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.

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