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The Explaner, I'm not trying to be a dick here, but with all these etymologies we really need someone's published say-so on the interpretation. Without that it's just a Wikipedia editor using their knowledge of latinate constructs, which may be correct but then again may not. Not much room for misinterpretation here but still :) Cope may not have had the useful modern habit of explaining his coinage in the text (actually I can't even find the taxon name in the source?), but you must have gotten the etymology from somewhere? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:23, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
Elmidae, Well I also looked Cope's text and didn't find any etymology. On Oxyaena page (before my first edit on that page) I saw this: "Oxyaena ("sharp" or "drawn-out" + hyena) ..." (user Apokryltaros made this in June of 2008), and then I looked on Wiktionary for words from whom Cope coin name of genus.--The Explaner (talk) 21:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
@The Explaner: well, I can't find the etymology anywhere else (other than copied from us), and I don't even knwo how to search for the cryptic record that Cope cites as the original description on page 95 of the linked source. The unsourced etymology shouldn't really be on the genus page either. @Apokryltaros: - any idea where you got that from? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:53, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
I originally got it from "The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures," where Dougal Dixon gives the translation as "sharp hyena." I have no objection of having the translation removed if this source is not reliable enough.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
Sounds good enough to me (and not just because I'm an After Man fanboy :). Let's use that. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:10, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
