premature posting of names (was RE: Sereno lecture 3 Feb, University of Michigan [joke, sorta])

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Tommy Bradley
>
> Matías Soto said:
> >Please, don't create more informal names or Tom will kill us :-)
>
> I may be overestimating my clout a bit, but does this mean when
> "(you know)"
> is formally named, that it is nessecary to add the silly,
> superfulus name I
> made up as a junior synonym!?!? :-(

It's more a danger of muddying up the publication waters.  Some journals are
rather skittish about publishing things which are supposed to be brand new,
but which have already shown up on the internet.

So, "better safe than sorry" are good words of wisdom here.

As for the small theropod...  Well, just Wait For the Paper.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
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