Yes. As a consequence, we seem to be headed back to the bad old days of dinosaur taxonomy, where every isolated scrap gets a name. This is causing a vast proliferation of genera based on indeterminate and fragmentary material that overwhelmes phylogenetic analyses with missing data (1/2)

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I am 99% sure that this new tanystropheid paper has misidentified a femur as a cervical vertebra. Longer argument if y’all want when I get home, but it looks clear cut to me

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The hollowing out of taxonomic expertise is the silent crisis in our profession. And the worse sin is those who aren't even the slight bit *curious* about learning basic identifications.

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So why are we naming them? None of them represents a significant or novel biogeographic or temporal data point.

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Okay rant over

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