Fw: Abyssal's official pterosaur question thread

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Sorry, Rob, this should have gone to the list.

> Lithosteornis and Osteornis
> Gervais, F. L. P. 1844. Remarques sur les oïseaux fossiles.

Oiseaux, with one dot on the i.

> Pteromimus and Procoelosaurus
> Atanassov, M. N. 2002. Two new archosaur reptiles from the Late Triassic 
> of Texas. PhD dissertation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 352 
> pages.
> (Confirmed, as I have a copy)

Very few theses count as published under the ICZN, so probably these names
aren't valid yet.

(On the other hand, perhaps the UMI should sue the ICZN... :-> )

> Ptenodracon
> Lydekker, R. 1888. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the
> British Museum (Natural History). I. London. pp. 2-42. (This is another
> title that can be found on the Pterosaur Database's list of Archived
> Sources.)

Oh. So that one kept haunting popular books as "the smallest pterosaur"
maybe 100 years after it was sunk into synonymy...

> Pterotherium
> Fischer von Waldheim, J. G. 1813. Zoognosia tabulis synopticus illustrata,
> in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperalis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquenis
> edita. 3rd edition, volume 1. 466 pages.

Imperialis.

Also try the French/fake Latin version "Fischer de Waldheim".