RE: paleonet Replicas as Type Specimens

["Mike Everhart" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

Maybe not for type specimens, but I'm sure there are instances for other important material ... in one case I know of photographs being used in lieu of the actual specimens which are in a private collection. It's not the best situation, but sometimes you have to take what you can get:

 

Bennett, S. C.  New crested specimens of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Nyctosaurus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 77:61-75.

 

http://www.bridgeport.edu/~cbennett/Crested_Nyctosaurs.html

 

 

Mike Everhart

Sternberg Museum of Natural History

Fort Hays State University

www.oceansofkansas.com