Talk:Neptunidraco

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"The genus and species name Neptunidraco ammoniticus is not a valid name under the International convention of Zoological nomenclature UNTIL the article in Gondwana Research is published. Presentation of it in this forum is inviting at best numerous nomina nuda and could even lead to the fossil being named by someone else." [ added by user:59.101.15.65 ] J. Spencer (talk) 03:40, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think this issue has been raised before. Maybe we should bring this issue up at Wikiproject Palaeontology? There are many articles about taxa whose descriptions haven't been published yet but are in press (see the names in 2011 in paleontology, for example), all of which would apply to this discussion. Smokeybjb (talk) 20:21, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've been asked in the past to move such articles into my userspace, although it's often quite evident that a species is new. Offhand, I know of three such articles I created in 2008, and only one of them so far has been formally described, to the best of my knowledge-- the other two are sitting out there with titles that have "sp. (2008)" on the end. Perhaps the best option is to create a subsection regarding the "likely" or "potentially" new genus in the parent taxon article, to be moved to its own article if the paper is ever published. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 06:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]