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Post by Himmapaan on Oct 5, 2011 12:57:43 GMT
The London specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica has been formally declared the type specimen by the ICZN. The single Solnhofen feather, the intitial holotype, is now thought to have belonged to another fossil bird species altogether. |
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Post by Seijun on Oct 5, 2011 17:01:56 GMT
How can you declare a single feather a holotype?
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Post by Horridus on Oct 5, 2011 17:02:50 GMT
How can you declare a single feather a holotype? They did things differently in the 19th century. See also: lumping everything they found into about 3 different genera. |
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Post by eriorguez on Oct 5, 2011 17:36:31 GMT
Also splitting everything they found into another genus.
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Post by Horridus on Oct 5, 2011 18:47:06 GMT
Also splitting everything they found into another genus. Only when they had to name more animals than their rivals. |
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Post by eriorguez on Oct 6, 2011 6:45:28 GMT
Not quite really, Archaeopteryx first got a truckload of names that also went unpublished. Still, most descriptions based on no differences came from those 2 rivals...
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Post by stoneage on Oct 6, 2011 22:33:24 GMT
Not quite really, Archaeopteryx first got a truckload of names that also went unpublished. Still, most descriptions based on no differences came from those 2 rivals... You mean O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope? |
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Post by bfler on Oct 7, 2011 5:44:42 GMT
Wasn't R. Owen the first one who has described Archaeopteryx?
If I am right Marsh has published some hypothesis about flight but never saw the fossil of an Archaeopteryx.
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Post by brontozaurus on Oct 7, 2011 11:25:43 GMT
How can you declare a single feather a holotype? They did things differently in the 19th century. See also: lumping everything they found into about 3 different genera. ALL THEROPODS ARE MEGALOSAURUS. NO EXCEPTIONS. (They basically made even the most out-there modern-day lumpers look sane.) I'm surprised this change didn't happen earlier. It makes far more sense for this specimen to be the type specimen than a single feather. |
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