Re: smallest ANCIENT non-bird dinosaur - was what I was asking

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Tim Williams writes: 

> And yet... that's exactly what the authors did when they named it "Pakicetus" - the "Paki[stan] whale". 
>
> (Ditto for _Ambulocetus_, _Artiocetus_, _Rodhocetus_, Himalayacetus_... and so on.  All have "whale" names too.)

Then again, so does Cetiosaurus. :) 

Many genera names containing 'suchus' aren't crocodilians, and Basilosaurus 
certainly isn't a 'saurian' (to return the relevance to whales). Names don't 
determine what something *is*. 

Calling something a musk ox for instance neither makes it an ox or allows it 
to start producing musk. 

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