Re: Dinosaur a tecnical term; fish is not (was RE: Fish with milk (Sheesh spinoff))

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

T. Michael Keesey writes:
>> Types were held to be the exemplars of some taxon (for instance,
>> there was commonly a "type species" for genera in the early 19thC)
> 
> There still are type species for genera in the early 20th century.

And indeed in the early 21st.

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