Re: Bloopers in Vert. paleontology

[jpoling@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Poling)]

> > 
> > The first Megalosaurus femur bone was identified as...ahem...
> > "The testes of a giant".(something like "Humanum scrotum"...or "Scrotum
> > humanum".  I'm not kidding.) 
> > 
>The latter - I have it listed as a "synonym" of one species of
>Iguanodon (?I. anglicum??).
>
>[Note, Iguanodon mantelli apparently *is* a junior synonym of
>I. anglicum, and therefore not a valid name].

   _The Dinosauria_ lists Scrotum humanum as Carnosauria nomen dubium.

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