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Re: Albertaceratops (simpson's bi-annual b*tch about dino naming)



What an amazing find and Fantastic creature. And I'll
just say it once and leave it alone... HATE the name. 

I should accept that people are going to name
dinosaurs after Countries, States, Provinces and
Rivers but I don't ever have to like it.

And since we've had this discussion before I'll just
state why for any newbies, I think dinosaurs should be
named after a prominant feature of anatomy or supposed
behavior and not a man made boundry 64 plus million
years removed. 

The second part of the name can and should be whatever
the heck you want. 

And yes, I know the only way I'll get my way is to go
dig em all up myself. Which I'm willing to do but with
my bum knee..... ; )

Andrew Simpson


ps. Of course I really don't like dinosaur being named
after people espessially your kids. Was looking
through a dino book just the other day and it had a 
picture and a story about a kid who the parents named
a dinosaur after. The person became more important
that the actual creature itself. And to me that's just
plain wrong.  

And thus the end of the rant. 


--- "bh480@scn.org" <bh480@scn.org> wrote:

> From: Ben Creisler bh480@scn.org
> 
> In case these items have not been mentioned yet:
> 
> A NEW BASAL CENTROSAURINE CERATOPSID FROM THE OLDMAN
> FORMATION,
> SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA
> MICHAEL J. RYAN 
> Journal of Paleontology  81(2): 376?396 (2007)
> 
> Abstract: A new centrosaurine ceratopsid,
> Albertaceratops nesmoi, is
> described from the lower Oldman Formation (Upper
> Cretaceous) of southern
> Alberta, and is based on a single, almost complete
> skull. Referred material
> is described from equivalent beds in the Judith
> River Formation of
> north-central Montana. A limited phylogenetic
> analysis of the Ceratopsidae
> places the new taxon as the basal member of the
> Centrosaurinae and
> indicates that robust, elongate postorbital
> horncores that form a
> synapomorphy of (Ceratopsidae + Zuniceratops) are
> also present in
> Centrosaurinae
> 
> 
> REDESCRIPTION AND PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF
> CAYPULLISAURUS (ICHTHYOSAURIA:
> OPHTHALMOSAURIDAE)
> MARTA FERNÁNDEZ 
> Journal of Paleontology.  81(2): 368?375 (2007)
> Abstract: The ophthalmosaurid Caypullisaurus from
> the Late Jurassic?Early
> Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina, is
> redescribed based on new
> information from recent discoveries. Cladistic
> analysis of Caypullisaurus,
> based on previous ichthyopterygian data sets and
> using NONA, yielded two
> most parsimonious trees. Two clades are recognized
> within the
> Ophthalmosauridae. Caypullisaurus is found to be
> nested with
> Brachypterygius and Platypterygius. Simultaneous,
> unconstrained analysis,
> using unambiguous character optimization, is
> suggested as the best way to
> analyze data sets with large amounts of missing
> data.
> 
> AN OSSIFIED TENDON TRELLIS IN CHASMOSAURUS
> (ORNITHISCHIA: CERATOPSIDAE)
> ROBERT HOLMES AND CHRISTOPHER ORGAN
> Journal of Paleontology  81(2) 368?375 (2007)
> 
> ----
> Redescription of Aigialosaurus dalmaticus
> Kramberger, 1892, a Cenomanian
> mosasauroid lizard from Hvar Island, Croatia
> 
> Alex R. Dutchak and Michael W. Caldwell 
> Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences i43(12):
> 1821-1834 (2006) 
> 
> 
> Abstract: Redescription of the type and only
> specimen of Aigialosaurus
> dalmaticus (BSP 1902II501), an "aigialosaurian"
> squamate from the
> Cenomanian?Turonian of Hvar, Croatia, and, at the
> time of collection, the
> Italian island of Lesina, indicates that previous
> reviews of the specimen
> include erroneous anatomical interpretations. The
> type specimen presents a
> new and unique pelvic anatomy: the ilium of A.
> dalmaticus is an elongate
> element with well-developed anterior and posterior
> iliac processes. A
> scenario is presented for mosasaurid pelvic
> evolution, whereby the
> anteriorly elongate and dorsally directed ilium of
> mosasauroids is not
> derived from the forward rotation of the posterior
> iliac process, but
> rather the reduction of that process and the
> elaboration of the anterior
> iliac process. Recent phylogenetic analysis of
> Mosasauroidea finds A.
> dalmaticus to be the sistergroup to Opetiosaurus
> bucchichi and all other
> mosasaurids and "aigialosaurs." We examine the
> character state assignments
> for A. dalmaticus in that study and refute those
> assignments owing to the
> absence of preservation of all four characters
> states found to separate A.
> dalmaticus from O. bucchichi. 
> 
> 
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