Re: KT boundry event


John Harshman wrote:
(snip)

But the word 'coelacanth' was not made up to refer to extinct
creatures.

Yes it was. Whatever are you thinking? It was made up to refer to
creatures that were thought to be extinct at the time. That turns out to
be wrong. Same with dinosaurs. The difference is that we knew about the
living dinosaurs but for some time didn't recognize them for what they are.

The examples are not parallel. The trouble with saying that birds are
dinosaurs is that birds are much different from dinosaurs, whereas the
coelacanth is essentially unchanged. Dinosaurs are extinct as
dinosaurs.


'Dinosaur' was. Are you saying that the word 'whale' is
wholly synonymous with Sinonyx?

Uh-oh, there's your problem with nested groups again. Sinonyx does not
encompass Cetacea (whales = Cetacea).

OK, what does?

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