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8 comments to "Strangest Dinosaur Names."
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Lasse
February 19th, 2007 at
3:55 am
Bambiraptor vs. Technosaurus, a movie i definately want to watch.
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Tsitsi
February 19th, 2007 at
4:50 am
Most of those weird “Latin” names are actually Greek.
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Emmers
February 19th, 2007 at
5:35 pm
Dracorex hogwartsia! How awesome!
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Dave
February 19th, 2007 at
6:56 pm
Agreed; world’s strangest dino names. But what gets me is all phony Latin-ification going on with them. If you’re gonna name the thing after Mick Jagger, just do it and don’t mess with the AEGROTOCATELLUS JAGGERI bs.
Methinks that anthropologists are just a bit full of themselves.
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ted
February 21st, 2007 at
10:45 am
I thought Mick Jagger WAS a dinosaur.
And yes, most of the names are Greek, or a combination of Latin and Greek roots.
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David
February 21st, 2007 at
9:16 pm
Mary Dawson named a Miocene felid Daphoenus demilo a number of years back and there was a boid from the Riversleigh in Australia that was named Montypythonoides (but I think the genus was later synonomized with something else).
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Sean
February 22nd, 2007 at
10:38 pm
About Hallucigenia–although the name indeed refers to the strange appearance as Walcott (and even SJ Gould) saw it, later work showed that there were two rows of tube feet, and two rows of spines. In other words it’s not quite so mysterious how it walked (although there is still no way of knowing which end is which).
And “Dave”: a) anthopologists don’t name trilobites, palaeontologists do (anthropologists rarely name any species, since they study humans); b) there has to be a genus and species name, usually the species (second) part of the name is used to honour someone/something/somewhere. They can’t just officially call a species “Bob”, that won’t work.
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onur
September 10th, 2007 at
7:13 am
:S
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