Taxacom: building such a bridge (between DNA sequence and name) - was Minimalist revision of Mesochorus

[Michael A. Ivie]

And yet, there are proposals to require DNA to validate a name. Even 
worse for Ichnotaxa.  The Code is for all of Zoology, yet some posters 
only seem to think about their narrow part of the puzzle.

Mike

On 9/4/2023 4:00 PM, Adam Cotton via Taxacom wrote:
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> On 05/09/2023 04:46, Michael A. Ivie via Taxacom wrote:
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>> I would love to see the T. rex holotype sequences. Paleontologists do
>> exist, but maybe not on this list?  All of these DNA proposals ignore
>> fossil taxa.
>>
>> M
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> It seems you missed an earlier comment in this thread that all the
> tissues in fossils have been replaced by rock during the fossilisation
> process, and as a result there is no possibility of obtaining DNA from
> those rocks.
>
> Adam.
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