[Taxacom] Names for fossils

[George Shepherd]

Do palaeontologists *really* name fossils this way ??

"Anyone with a spare million euros or two will have the opportunity to 
not only own a unique species of dinosaur skeleton next month, but to 
name it."

[Prof Eric Mickeler said].. “The rule for all scientific discoveries 
that are confirmed to be new, the person who owns it can give it its 
scientific name. It can be the name of a company or a person. Then they 
just add an ‘-us’ on the end.”

 From a "Guardian" report on the sale of a nearly complete fossil 
skeleton of a previously undescribed dinosaur species : 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/11/dinosaur-skeleton-therapod-auction-paris