RE: Labrosaurus (was RE: birds and dinosaurs)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Nick Pharris (npharris@umich.edu) wrote:

<The neotype.  Remember _Eucoelophysis baldwini_ (the erstwhile holotype
of _Coelophysis bauri_)?>

  No.

  The holotype of *Eucoelophysis* is NMMNH P-22298, the lectotype of
*Coelophysis* is AMNH 2722, and it's neotype is AMNH 7224, also the
holotype of *Rioarribasaurus.* The lectotype of *Coelophysis* has never
been renamed and, effectively, cannot be since it can only carry the name
of it's original species. This is why we don't use *Griphosaurus* today,
as the London specimen, not the feather, is the holotype by both von
Meyer's designation, useage, and by ICZN designation in the 1960's when
this issue was considered problematic enough by Ostrom to require sinking
of the older name *crassipes* that might have priority over
*lithographica.*

  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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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