Re: [dinosaur] Gnathovorax, new herrerasaurid (open access)
"David Marjanovic" <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:49:59 +0100
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Gesendet: Montag, 11. November 2019 um 04:26 Uhr Von: "Brad McFeeters" <[email protected]> > Notably, Pacheco et al. (2019) seem to be the first study to recover *Pisanosaurus* closer to Ornithischia than to Silesauridae, after taking into account the studies that find it as a silesaurid. The first published study, yes... > Etymologically, is *Gnathovorx* the "devouring jaw," or the "devourer of jaws"? It's "the jaw-voracious one". Whether that means it devours jaws or _has_ jaws is left to context. (Greek abounds in compound adjectives, at least in poetry. The area around Argos is routinely called "the horse-nourishing Argolid" in the Iliad, for instance.)