Re: "Pterodactylus" kochi help?

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

HP David Peters wrote... 
 
> ???? 
> Wait a minute, Jaime, I am not suggesting a monophyly or sisterhood of 
> Germanodactylus and Pterodactylus [...] 
 
A large part of the confusion seems to stem from the fact that between 
here 
 
> "Jaime A. Headden" wrote: 
> 
> [...] 
> 
> >   Because *Pterodactylus* and *P. kochi* are both older than 
> > *Germanodactylus* or *G. cristatus*, any specimen referal that might 
> > imply that Germano is the adult form of Ptero, simply drop the name 
> > German or cristatus. rhamphastinus appears likely to need a new name, 
> > or it also gets subsumed as a species distinct in Pterodactylus. 
> > 
> >  --Pterodactylus 
> >     |--P. kochi (including G. cristatus) 
> >     `--G. rhamphastinus 
 
and here, *G. cristatus* and *G. rhamphastinus* are confused. *G. 
cristatus* is the type species of *G.*, and is in this thread _not_ 
supposed to be synonymous with *P. kochi*, but *G. rhamphastinus*, the 
referred species, is. Nr. 64 is the type specimen of *G. rhamphastinus*, 
not *G. cristatus*. 
 
Therefore, if the basic assumptions of this thread (that Nr. 23 and Nr. 64 
are conspecific, and not congeneric with *P. antiquus*) are correct, then 
*G. rhamphastinus* and *P. kochi* become *G. kochi*, while *G. cristatus* 
stays intact. 
        And now for a genericometer (to find out if *G. kochi* can stay 
*G.* or needs a new genus name). We have none at the institute, and ebay 
doesn't have any either (all sold out). :-} 

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