Re: New name for Megalosaurus hesperis

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

> What does all this have to do with Megalosauroidea?  I'm glad you asked. 
> Megalosauroidea and Megalosauridae are coordinate taxa, and both were 
> established upon _Megalosaurus_.  Thus, the ICZN gets to call the shots 
> w.r.t nomenclatural matters.  It's not so much the -oidea or -idae 
> suffixes that puts these names under the ICZN, but how these taxon names 
> came about.

Haven't Pterodactyloidea and Rhamphorhynchoidea been used as suborders 
since, like, forever?