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Re: [dinosaur] RETRACTION: Oculudentavis, new smallest known Mesozoic bird in amber from Cretaceous of Myanmar

On Thursday, July 23, 2020, 04:06:40 AM UTC, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> So on that basis _Oculudentavis_ is an available name.
> ... The ICZN will have to sort this one out. 
> A trigger for a petition may be another publication...


If the paper is published, then that's that. You can follow up with a 
correction, but there's really no retracting it--certainly not if it's 
published in hardcopy. Trying to invoke an ICZN issue by re-naming the same 
specimen in a subsequent publication would only compound the original mistake.

If it's a squamate, well, its name is still going to be Oculudentavis. C'est la 
vie. This recalls a recent thread here about bad/inapropos names, like 
Oviraptor. Oculudentavis may take the cake.

    Paul P.