Response to Lucas's defence

Fri Mar 7 21:53:47 GMT 2008

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Parker's response to Lucas

Parker's response is in a separate document.

Supporting documents

• Email from Parker to Heckert, March 14, 2003, requesting access to the NMMNHS collection. Heckert was NMMNHS collection manager at that time. The message was copied to Kate Zeigler, lead author of the original "Desmatosuchus" chamaensis description, requesting her permission to view that material.
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• Notes taken by Parker during the visit, April 9, 2003.
• A photograph of the a "D." chamaensis scute taken by Parker during this visit. The embedded metadata in this photograph, placed there automatically by the camera, shows that the photo was taken on April 9, 2003.
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• Email from Randy Irmis confirming that he visited the NMMNHS collection with Bill Parker on April 9, 2003, that they were allowed to photograph the material, and that Lucas discussed Parker's intention to rename "D." chamaensis.
• Email from Parker to Zeigler, April 1, 2005. Includes a quoted message from Zeigler showing that, while Lucas did not want her to spend time taking photographs for Parker, he was still happy for Parker to study the matrial in person.
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• Excepts from Lucas's review of Parker and Irmis (2005). The first included page is the summary sheet, signed and dated by Lucas on April 2, 2005. On the second included page, Lucas cites Parker's 2003 thesis, indicating that he had in fact read it, and stating his opinion that Parker was incorrect to raise a new genus for "D." chamaensis. The third included page shows the part of Parker and Irmis's manuscript that Lucas was criticising, and notes that a paper is in prep that will show the generic distinctness of this species.
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• Letter from Andrew Smith, editor of the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, concerning the selection of reviewers for Parker's (2007) paper.

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