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Originally Posted by Jazhara7
Oh, and don't forget paleontologists! If it turns out that two different species are actually the same, then they get to keep the name that has been given to them first. There's no Brontosaurus!
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That's no fair example!
Don't just neglect to mention that "Brontosaurus" was given as a name to the body-skeleton of an Apatosaurus and the head of a Camarasaurus! Or rather, they hadn't found an Apatosaurus head and assumed it must look something like a Camarasaurus head. Except they were
wrong by
a long shot.
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Originally Posted by Jazhara7
[...] Since "Hyracotherium" was the name it had first, that's what is officially know as, even though "Eohippus" is much more pretty.
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It may mean something nicer, but, but, but, it doesn't sound so neat.
(So much for why there is a clear-cut rule about which name to use.)
