Comments on: 2011: Archaeopteryx Sesquicentennial Year in Review

By: Archaeopteryx Coin « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings

Archaeopteryx Coin « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:25:42 +0000

[...] grateful. You may well have seen one of these before however, as Larry Witmer got one early and included it on his big roundup of the whole schebang last [...]

By: witmerlab

witmerlab — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:17:00 +0000

Casey, I got my Archaeopteryx coin on good ol’ eBay. The German seller from which i bought my coin has one up for sale right now: http://bit.ly/uRo2dY.

Also, on the Facebook thread wherein I heralded my acquisition, Mark Van Tomme reported that they can be bought directly from the German mint: http://bit.ly/tF5yJY.

Happy hunting!

By: Casey Tucker

Casey Tucker — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:25:10 +0000

Could you tell us how to order one of those commemorative coins? I’d like to get one as well, but couldn’t figure out where to go to purchase one.

By: witmerlab

witmerlab — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:19:35 +0000

Thanks, Paul! No slight intended. I posted about the London specimen being designated the neotype on Facebook when it happened, but you’re right, I should have included it in my roundup.

Here’s the news release from the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN): http://bit.ly/vcMYUu. And here’s the article from the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (2011. 68(3):230–233): http://bit.ly/pYDKZd.

And well done, Paul. It was long process, I know.

By: Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:52:14 +0000

You missed out the fact that it got a new holotype designation too…