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  • adjective Jones (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Jones's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Jones.

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Examples

  • The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.

    Archive 2009-01-25 Bill Crider 2009

  • State Dinosaur of Texas for the very first time: Paluxysaurus jonesi.

    Top Story 2010

  • The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.

    San Antonio News 2009

  • Paluxysaurus jonesi is believed to have lived 112 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the legislature last month that seeks to send pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.

    FOXNews.com 2009

  • After tinkering with the name, he settled on incorporating Paluxy and stamped the species as jonesi, in a tribute to the Jones Ranch and its rich collection of fossils.

    The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines 2009

  • Rose determined it was a different dinosaur altogether - a previously unrecognized genus and species he named Paluxysaurus jonesi, after W.W. Jones, the owner of the land on which the fossils were found.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • State Rep. Charles Geren of Fort Worth filed a resolution Jan. 7 to change the name of the state dinosaur from Pleurocoelus to Paluxysaurus jonesi to correctly name the massive sauropod whose tracks and bones litter the central Texas Jones Ranch.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • After tinkering with the name, he settled on incorporating Paluxy and stamped the species as jonesi, in a tribute to the Jones Ranch and its rich collection of fossils.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2009

  • The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.

    The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines 2009

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