Panphagia & Aerosteon live!

An update to the previous concerns over the validity of the name Panphagia (see original post on the new species here, and the ICZN controversy here). In the comments section of the later post, an author of the Panphagia description in the online journal PLoS ONE, had this to say:

• "Regarding to the ICZN requierements, I let you know that PLoS made the printed copies. So, the problem of the validity or not of the new species is over."
  --Ricardo Martínez, Panphagia paper author

So there you have it, PLoS ONE, after the Darwinius debacle, is probably going back to correct any past oversights in this area. The name Panphagia protos Martínez & Alcober 2009 is officially valid and doesn't need to be emended (just note the change in exact publication date, in case some claim-jumper has published another name or alternate spelling or something in the mean time). EDIT: Aerosteon and Maiacetus have been similarly addressed. The official publication date for Aerosteon is now 2009 as far as the ICZN is concerned.

[Illustration Panphagia above is from here, copyright Jorge Gonzalez.]