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RE: Ornithodiran phylogeny - a graphical approach


Well, sure.  But I don't see how any of that is relevant to what I
actually _said_, namely that _G._ has not AFAIK _every_ been used in
the literature except by people raising the name.  And that neither of
the publications that did that were peer-reviewed, so no use of the
name whatsoever has ever made it through review.

Oh, I see what you were getting at. I thought you were disputing the nomenclatural validity of _Giraffatitan_ by claiming the name wasn't published properly.

I hope I didn't!  What I hope I convinced you of is that there is no
_published_ reason to consider _brancai_ generically separate from
_altithorax_.

Yes, Greg Paul jumped the gun, and Olshevsky just blindly followed his lead without corroborating GSP's conclusions.

Please don't quote me on this, but I think they _are_
separate, and hope to show this in print in the not-too-distant
future.


Look forward to it.  I'll keep it to myself until then.

Unfortunately, that means GSP's butt-ugly name will have to
survive (and, no, I don't like being the instrument of that!)

Yeah, that's unfortunate. There's no way around that I'm afraid. GSP pinned the name _Giraffatitan_ to a great specimen, and it's now set in stone.

Cheers

Tim