Importation of long-extinct taxa that become ungrafted

[carrieseltzer]

Please share specific examples and we can investigate if there’s another person.

[mftasp]

I’d just invalidated a bunch, but luckily still had them open on my screen:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142059-Milesdavis-eldredgei
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142053-Funkotriplogynium
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142080-Aphonopelma-hollyi
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142149-Preseucoila-imallshookupis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142017-Amauris-mozarti
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142014-Encarsia-mozarti
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1141960-Psephophorus-terrypratchetti

Some appear to be authors, so maybe just famous people as well

[mftasp]

Here’sa brand-new one. I’d be surprised if it was different people doing this:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1142296-Caypullisaurus-bonapartei

[carrieseltzer]

@mftasp

Some appear to be authors, so maybe just famous people as well

These were all made before 12:45 pm EDT today, when the person stopped when asked.

@mftasp

Here’sa brand-new one. I’d be surprised if it was different people doing this:

I just reached out to this person too, 25 min ago, who is different. Thanks to cmcheatle for quickly sending me some new extinct taxon names to check.

Edited to add: I filed an issue to capture who creates these taxa so that curators can reach out directly when a problem is spotted so that staff intervention is not needed to find the person responsible.