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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:17:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: vrtpaleo@usc.edu, dinosaur@usc.edu, PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Cc: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Subject: RE: Validity of *Tyrannosaurus stanwinstonorum* Pickering (1996)
[Dr.] Tom Holtz (tholtz@geol.umd.edu) wrote: <The U.S. Code has no bearing on what constitutes *taxonomic* publication; only a biological nomenclatorial body (such as the ICZN or the future ICPN) has authority in such cases.> The reason I brought up the U.S. Code is because the ICZN does not specify the nature of publication, just accepted publications and unaccepted publications. It does not exclude the actual material Pickering used. Whereas one can consider also the means by which these were transmitted as being similar to newsletters, the ICZN does not specifically exclude them. However, this is not really the main issue I chose to bring up in my first post. <Furthermore, there is a sort of community rules standard: if the community of scientists ignores an (in this case invalidly and inadvisedly proposed) name, then it isn't used.> However, though Pickering's work does not constitute a professionally accepted work and therefore its nomenclature is typically ignored, the issue of Glut's accepted nomenclatural publication, with type, diagnosis, and figure supplied, does apparently conform to the ICZN's standards, even though the names were coined by another person. This is one reason why the _vide_ appelation is used, to my knowledge. What I would like to know is does Glut's publication count as a valid taxonomic work, and his use of the nomenclature available or not? Cheers, ===== Jaime A. Headden Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making leaps in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do. We should all learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it. "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com