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Having your ideas published without attribution, and having your names with priority ignored
So, Gao et al. have a paper out in the new JVP issue with the major conclusion
"Examination of the characters used to diagnose other named sapeornithid
species reveals that such diagnoses have incorporated morphologies that are
influenced by either taphonomy or ontogeny. Based on qualitative and
quantitative comparisons between the new specimen and other sapeornithid
species, we argue that all other named sapeornithids are junior synonyms of S.
chaoyangensis." Does that sound familiar to anyone? Moreover they are the
latest and one the most egregious examples of workers utterly ignoring
Omnivoropteryx and Omnivoropterygidae, the latter of which has four years
priority over Sapeornithidae. More here-
http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2012/08/having-your-ideas-published-without.html
. Thoughts?
Mickey Mortimer