Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> [...] Hesperornithes
> should be used for eleven years "priority" and chose not to define
> Hesperornithiformes, thus ignoring over 100 years of historic usage of the
> Sharpe name without any mention of the Fürbringer name.

This way the name gets shorter, looks more logical, and the whole -formes
business is just to indicate that a group is an order -- ranks are being
dropped, so why should their specific endings be forced to stay.

Hesperornithes is used in the Ostrom Symposium volume several times.