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Re: [dinosaur] The best and worst names of non-avian dinosaurs



More dino names with great background stories:

*Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki* - the uncatchable lizard. Often reassigned to Dryosaurus, but honors a brilliant German military mind who resisted and evaded the Allies in East Africa for nearly all of the First World War.

I find E.D. Cope's names to be much more poetic than the prosaic ones coined by his rival Marsh. Sadly, many are invalid. Laelaps, Agathaumas, Monoclonius, Dysganus... 
Marsh was far too fond of the -saurus suffix.


Thomas Yazbeck


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Subject: Re: [dinosaur] The best and worst names of non-avian dinosaurs
 
Well, I'm not sure how many of these names will ultimately be condemned to junior synonym or nomen dubium status but for me (unranked):
-The comic nerd in me loves Thanos simonattoi. I think it shows that scientists are people and we can do fun things.
-I love Brontomerus because it always draws a laugh or two from students.
-Othnielia & Drinker because they reflect the history of paleontology (at least in North America).
-Suskityrannus (just how it was named: the researchers asking permission from the local Tribe to incorporate part of their language, the word for "coyote" into this fossil name).
-And for non-dinosaurs, I love Ninjemys oweni

We gotta have fun with our field.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:46 PM Poekilopleuron <dinosaurtom2015@seznam.cz> wrote:
Good day to all listmembers! I would like to ask, what in your opinion is the "best" (coolest) and "worst" generic name of non-avian dinosaurs? Thank you for your thoughts, in advance! Tom


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Richard J.D. Bykowski
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Geobiology/Vertebrate Paleontology