Nomina nuda (singular ‘nomen nudem’) means ‘naked names’ and is used to refer to Latin species names that have failed to stick because the species were inadequately described in the initial publication, with too little information to distinguish them from other named species. In their paper, the RAS scientists, with their limited collection of specimens, claimed the fossils represented remains from several species, while Godefroit’s team said there was only one. A subsequent paper, published by Alifanov and Saveliev in 2015,8 claimed a third species, an ovimimosaur, from the site, but other
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