Names for fossil taxa

[Silurus]

Whenever names of fossil (extinct) taxa are used, it's the usual convention (especially when both fossil and Recent taxa are mentioned together) to preface the name with a dagger character (†) like so:
†Hypsidoridae
†Hypsidoris oregonensis

This allows easy distinction between Recent and fossil taxa. One notable exception is dinosaur taxa (because everyone knows that they are extinct...well, almost all of them anyways).

[Jools]

Aaaaaargh!

Jools

[Jools]

OK, think I've got it sussed. The trick is to use the HTML ( & # 8 2 2 4 ; ) for the † symbol but NOT in the database otherwise it sorts the family to before those beginning with the letter A. Ah, good old ASCII...

Jools