RE: Stegosaur volume of Swiss Journal of Geosciences

[Tim Williams <tijawi@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 19/9/10, Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com> wrote:



> and again, I refer you to Basileosaurus  (actually a whale), or 
> Thylacaleo (not really a lion)....there are plenty of misnomers in the 
> scientific names.


Yes.  _Arrhinoceratops_ has a nasal horn, and _Diceratops_ has more than two 
horns.  


But I was referring specifically to your "marsupial mice" example.  Marsupial 
mice are classified within Marsupialia (family Dasyuridae), not Rodentia.  So 
the taxonomy corrects the mistaken impression given by the common name.



> I'm not asking for special pleading  --  I'm asking that we keep it 
> alive _until it is proven to be worth the paper I'm writing this email 
> on._


I'm happy to keep Ceratopsidae alive.  As long as we understand that (in the 
absence of a definition that includes _Ceratops_) there is no reason to 
*assume* that _Ceratops_ belongs in the clade Ceratopsidae.


Cheers

Tim