[Taxacom] Names for fossils

[Stephen Thorpe]

What a complete load of BS!

“This isn’t something you just stumble across: you have to go looking and digging for it.”

Oh, I don't know, I must have tripped over several skeletons of new species of dinosaur on my way home from the pub last night! :)

Stephen

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On Sat, 12/5/18, George Shepherd <gjshepherd02 at terra.com.br> wrote:

 Subject: [Taxacom] Names for fossils
 To: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Saturday, 12 May, 2018, 12:36 PM
 
 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
 
 
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