Re: Pterosaurian etymologies?

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

Mike Hanson (mhanson54@comcast.net) wrote:

<Apatomerus>

  _apate_ Grk. = "deceptive, or misleading" + _merus_ [Lat.] > _mero_ Grk.
= "femur."

<Belonochasma>

  All I can find is that "belono" refers to Beloño, Asturias, Spain
[España], as found in a variety of other "belono-" taxa. Beloño is on
Pyrenean the border with France, and references also cite "Frankish"
origin of this form, whatever it was (I have not read Kühn, 1961, who
decided it was not a pterosaur), and the describing author, Broili, was
French; _chasma_ Grk. = "mouth," of course.

<Rhabdopelix>

  _rhabdos_ Grk. = "rod, stick, bar" + _pelix_ Lat. > _pelycos_ Lat. =
"pelvis, basin."

=====
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)


        
                
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs  
http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover