Talk:Riabininohadros

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Merger Proposal

None of the dinosaur taxa named by Roman Ulansky are valid according to Galton & Carpenter (2016). They were “published” in Ulansky’s “journal” Dinologia, a non-peer-reviewed collection of pdf’s on his personal website where he is the sole author. Suffice to say Dinologia does not meet the ICZN requirements for a valid publication and thus all of these names are nomina nuda. I propose that all of the remaining Ulansky taxa pages should be merged into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_informally_named_dinosaurs.

Reference: Galton, P.M., & Carpenter, K. (2016). The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 279(2), 185-208. Carnoferox (talk) 21:51, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Riabininohadros has been used as a valid name without comment in two papers since its original coining, so the issue seems a bit muddy. Lusotitan (Talk | Contributions) 20:35, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm aware that Lopatin et al. (2018) have without comment treated "Riabininohadros" as valid. However, this is mistaken because it does not meet ICZN requirements for validity. This issue is not "muddy", it is crystal clear according to the Code. Continuing to pretend that Ulansky's names are valid only supports his taxonomic vandalism. Reference: Lopatin, A.V., Averianov, A.O., & Alifanov, V.R. (2018). New data on dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula. Doklady Biological Sciences, 482(1), 206-209. Carnoferox (talk) 01:55, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]