Re: Bambiraptor = Saurornitholestes? (joke)

["Jaime Headden" <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com>]

Or they felt that lumping should occur. If *Deinonychus* and 
*Saurornitholestes* should be subsumed into *Velociraptor,* despite the
specific apomorphies of each -- sensu Paul, for example -- and the provenance 
of *Bambiraptor* being identical to that of
*Saurornitholestes,* suggesting morphological synonymy though I've not seen an 
explicit enumeration of how, then ALL become synonyms
of *Velociraptor*.... Who knows.

  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.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Bambiraptor = Saurornitholestes? (joke)


Quoting Andy Farke <andyfarke@hotmail.com>:

> As I recall, the specimen on display at Oxford is a cast of the Bambiraptor
> holotype--why it's referred to Velociraptor at that museum, I don't know.

Maybe Oxford thought "Bambiraptor" was too undignified.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan