Re: [dinosaur] Xunmenglong, new compsognathid theropod from Lower Cretaceous of China
"David Marjanovic" <[email protected]>
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> Fun fact: "xunmenglong" is one of the popular Chinese names used for *Velociraptor*. The authors must have known what they were doing with that one... Oh, great. Yet another case like: *Fossa fossana*: the fanaloka/jabady. Not the fossa, which is *Cryptoprocta ferox*. *Agouti*: the pacas, not the agoutis, which are *Dasyprocta*. Fortunately, *Agouti* is a junior synonym of *Cuniculus*.