llewelly on Nostr: nprofile1q…rpfuj in paleontological names, "pro" as a prefix often means that at ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj (nprofile…pfuj) in paleontological names, "pro" as a prefix often means that at the time of naming, the animal was hypothesized to be a near-ancestor of the animal prefixed; Procompsognathus was hypothesized to be a near-ancestor of Compsognathus (err ... that didn't work out so well), and Proceratosaurus was hypothesized to be a near-ancestor of Ceratosaurus (nope ... the first is a tyrannosaurid, the second is not).