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Dinosaur Genera List corrections #52



Today's publication of the theropod material from Morocco in _Science_
by Sereno et al et al et al... adds one new genus to the list with the
description of _Deltadromeus agilis_, a slender-limbed theropod about
25 feet (8 meters) long. My copy of _Science_ hasn't arrived yet, so
I've had to rely on newspaper accounts of the work. Nice photo of the
reconstructed skull of _Carcharodontosaurus_ was printed in today's
_Buffalo News_.

All newspaper accounts that I've seen spell the name _Deltadromeus_;
but Tom Holtz's recent post has it _Deltadromaeus_. Right now the
former spelling is the one I'll use, but it may be incorrect. If so,
I'll post another correction(!).

So add the following:

Deltadromeus Sereno, Duthiel, Iarochene, Larsson, Lyon, Magwene,
Sidor, Varricchio & Wilson, 1996

to the list. Genera count goes up to 788.

This is the first genus >>not included<< in the Dinosaur Genera List
shipping this week as part of _Dinosaur Folios_ #1. Not bad: Out of
date the very day of publication.