RE: Labrosaurus (was RE: birds and dinosaurs)

[Ken Carpenter <KCarpenter@dmns.org>]

Mickey is correct, however, that the paratype must be designated in the same 
publication as the holotype . Any specimen mentioned afterwards (even in a 
redescription of the holotype) are referred specimens.
Ken

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
Chief Preparator
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History 
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205

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>>> "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu> 07/Jul/04 >>>
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Tim Williams
>Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
>Actually, the "paratype" (technically a topotype, as Chure points out) and
>the (unnecessary) neotype were officially indicated in Madsen (1976, p. 10).