RE: cymbospondylus

["Vick, CV" <cv.vick@intel.com>]

More info re: Cymbo

cymb(o)- (cymb(o)-) [Gr. kymb[emacr], boat]  a combining form meaning
boat-shaped.
 

-----Original Message-----
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