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Re: Publication dates and dinosaur genera and species for 2008

Without referring to any specific case, Nick, some problems of this nature can arise because some journals are publications of procedings. I'll invite a representative example as an illustration. In November of some year or other, somebody gets up at a meeting and reads out a paper. All they've is read it rather than publish it. A few months later publication appears. That's in some year or other plus one.

As it happens, there's a fresh example of just such a thing. In Russia last November a paper was read out about a non-mammalian cynodont; a couple of teeth of a new tritylodontid from the far east of Siberia. That was 2007. The date of publication is 2008.
Cheers
Trevor

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick" <nick.gardner@gmail.com>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:15 AM
Subject: Publication dates and dinosaur genera and species for 2008


Dear listers,

This is not necessarily ON TOPIC for the list, but I am curious as to
why there are often discrepancies between the date marked on published
articles and the dates that they are considered as being... example,
Macrogryphosaurus, the volume it was published in says
November/December 2007, but if I understand right, it wasn't published
until 2008? How are people supposed to be able to keep track of this?
Also, does anyone know what dinosaur genus and species have been
published in 2008 so far?

Here's what I have thus far:

Camptosaurus aphanocetes - iguanodontian
Dakotadon (new genus for Iguanodon lakotaensis) - iguanodontian
Diceratus (replacement name for Diceratops) - ceratopsid
Dollodon bampingi (new genus for Iguanodon bampingi) - iguanodontian
Eoconfuciusornis zhengi - pygostylian avialan
Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus - iguanodontian
Microceratus (replacement name for Microceratops) - neoceratopsian
Muyelensaurus pecheni - titanosaurid
Pengornis houi - enantiornithine

Thanks
Nick Gardner