Re: cymbospondylus

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>:

>   Hail from Seattle,
>
> Thomas de Wilde (jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com) wrote:
>
> <C.petrinus (type) Leidy, 1868
>  C.asiaticus Li & You, 2002
>  C.buchseri, Sander,1989
>  C.germanicus (nomen dubium?), von Huene, 1916
>  C.natans (nomen dubium?) Leidy, 1868>

By the way, the "cymb" element wasn't in my Greek dictionary.  My Latin
dictionary lists "cymba" as a variant of "cumba", which refers to a small boat.
 What a small boat has to do with _Cymbospondylus_'s vertebrae, I don't know.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan