RE: Araucanoraptor (with a side order of sour grapes)

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

T. Michael Keesey <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> wrote:

> It could be a double meaning, though, also referring to the fowl-like 
> nature of
> the animal. Double meanings are not unknown among dinosaur names (e.g.
> _Datousaurus_, apparently meaning "chieftain saurian" and "big head 
> saurian").


_Elosaurus_ is apparently another example of a double meaning: the first 
part is from 'helos' (Gk for 'marsh'), and alludes to the lifestyle inferred 
for sauropods back then, and at the same time honors paleontologist O.C. 
Marsh.

_Gasosaurus_ is another example... and there are others.

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