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Re:Rioarribasaurus?
>The original fossil, from which Coelophysis was named, was so fragmentary
that some believe it couldn't be >distinguished as a new dinosaur.
Thats strange, they find several hundred individuals , juvenile to adult,
including nearly complete articulated skeletons. Chinle Form, Ghost Ranch,
New Mexico, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, US
[COELOPHYSIS bauri (Cope,1889) Coelophysis > C.bauri Cope,1889 (= Coelurus
bauri (Cope,1887) ]
>So the excellent, complete, distinguishable fossils found at Ghost Ranch,
POSITIVELY known to be a new >species of dinosaur, were recently named
_Rioarribasaurus colberti_. The original Coelophysis has been >reexamined
and scientists seem to have come up with a new idea -- Coelophysis (type
specimen) and >Rioarribasaurus (Ghost Ranch specimens) are really two
completely different dinosaurs!
So now we have a new ceratosaurian: RIOARRIBASAURUS Hunt & Lucas,1991
Saurischia Theropoda Ceratosauria Podokosauridae and Coelophysis aswel as
Syntarsus remain?
With regards
Fred Bervoets
fb@nrc.nl