Missatge de Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> del dia dc., 21 dâag. 2019 a les 2:58:
Neo-Latin is what usage makes it, so a syntactic compound (rather than a stem-based compound) with a plural and a singular might be OK. In the singular, Ker meant the goddess of death, so using the stem ker- or kero- might not convey the idea intended with the plural Keres.Ker goddess of deathGreek had a compound:keressiphoretos "urged on by the Keres"ÂÂOn Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:18 PM Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> wrote:The name (_Keresdrakon_) is odd. It's named after the Keres, the "deathspirits who personified violent death in Greek mythology and are associated to doom and/or plunder". It's a great idea to name a pterosaur after the Keres - nothing wrong here. However, "Keres" is plural. The singular is "Ker". "_Keresdrakon_" looks very 'cut-and-paste'. The name would perhaps be more appropriately rendered as "Kerdrakon" or "Kerodrakon". (Ben - any comments?)On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:47 AM Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:Ben CreislerA new paper in open access:Free pdf:Keresdrakon vilsoni gen. et sp. nov.Alexander W.A. Kellner, Luiz C. WeinschÃtz, Borja Holgado, Renan A.M. Bantim & Juliana M. SayÃo (2019)
A new toothless pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from Southern Brazil with insights into the paleoecology of a Cretaceous desert.
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiÃncias 91, suppl.2: e20190768
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201920190768.
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652019000400517&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=enFree pdf:The first pterosaur bone bed from Brazil was reported in 2014 at the outskirts of the town Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paranà State, in the Southern region of the country. Here named 'cemitÃrio dos pterossauros' site, these outcrops were referred to the Goio-Erà Formation (Turonian-Campanian) of the Caiuà Group (Bauru Basin) and revealed the presence of hundreds of isolated or partially articulated elements of the tapejarine pterosaur Caiuajara and fewer amounts of a theropod dinosaur. Here we present a new tapejaromorph flying reptile from this site, Keresdrakon vilsoni gen. et sp. nov., which shows a unique blunt ridge on the dorsal surface of the posterior end of the dentary. Morphological and osteohistological features indicate that all recovered individuals represent late juveniles or sub-adults. This site shows the first direct evidence of sympatry in Pterosauria. The two distinct flying reptiles coexisted with a theropod dinosaur, providing a rare glimpse of a paleobiological community from a Cretaceous desert.====News (in Portuguese):