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| | Re: Fictional creatures in Gee & Rey's Field Guide to Dinosaurs |
 | | saurus ending which, as I understand it, is why George lists it in his nomen nudum list. |
 | | This is really impractical to his stated purposes with the list, unless he would also like to list "nick names" and other non-scientific usages, and this would pretty much cause the number of names to explode and follow non-taxonomic usage (Big Al, Sue, Stan, Fred, Fran, Willo, etc....). |
 | | By contrast, the mere mention of a new dinosaur genus in a newspaper article, pop-sci text, dissertation etc should *not* be grounds for regarding the name as a _nomen nudum_. |
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