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 **Subjective Synonymy**
-A different type of synonymy also exists where a paleontologist has miss-identified a specimen in their material, but published it anyway. Later, another paleontologist comes along and re-examines the first paleontologist's illustrations (or preferably the original material) and decides that the identification was mistaken. In the second paleontologist's publication, he/she will refer to the first paleontologist's record as a "subjective synonym" (subjective because it is the second paleontologist's //opinion//).
+A different type of synonymy also exists where a paleontologist has miss-identified a specimen in their material, but published it anyway. Later, another paleontologist comes along and re-examines the first paleontologist's illustrations (or preferably the original material) and decides that the identification was mistaken but suggests what it //should// be called. In the second paleontologist's publication, he/she will refer to the first paleontologist's record as a "subjective synonym" (subjective because it is the second paleontologist's //opinion//).