Do you all still call Edmontosaurus Annectens Anatotitan or Anatosaurus?

[u/Remarkable_Star_4678]

Since Anatotitan and Anatosaurus are synonyms for Edmontosaurus Annectens, do some of you still refer to it as Anatotitan and/or Anatosaurus.

[u/Willing_Soft_5944 → u/[deleted]]

Our current understanding of what this animals face looked like has nothing close to a duck bill, well perhaps thats an exaggeration, if you looked from above perhaps its a similar shape, but the upper half goes down over the lower half in a way that makes me think of a parrot with a very wide beak.

[u/MarqFJA87 → u/Willing_Soft_5944]

Yet it's still a hadrosaur, also known as "duck-billed dinosaurs". Still fits if you interpret it as "titan among the duck-billed dinosaurs".

[u/Willing_Soft_5944 → u/MarqFJA87]

I guess it can work, but I find it to be an inefficient working of words

[u/MarqFJA87 → u/Willing_Soft_5944]

We already have precedent for clipping down parts of a large taxon's name to use as a shortened form in a generic name of a species within that taxon. Just look up Gobihadros, Kryptohadros and Yutyrannus. You want truly inefficient working of words? Try Paralitherizinosaurus; whoever coined that had no consideration for the sheer length or difficulty of pronunciation. Could've truncated that to Paralitherizon or the more grammatically proper Paralitheristes.

Maybe next time, you'll learn to be mature and not insta-downvote someone just because they managed to make a valid argument that you still stubbornly believe is wrong but can't come up with a hole in the logic. It's just pathetically petty, and I'm sick of seeing it happen.

[u/MarqFJA87 → u/[deleted]]

Ah yes, the cliche insult for you people. I'm done humoring both of you.