Re: Reference & lost world ?(spoiler)

[Bettyc <Bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Eric A Campbell wrote:
> I Believe that those dinos that went after Kelly are _Compsognathus
> Triassicus_.  A little Chicken-Like dino from the late Jurassic. I have
> no idea why the surname is Triassicus. Maybe I am misinformed...

T Holtz explained tis very well in sci.bio.paleontology.

  "Robert Bakk..., er, Burke refers to it as "Compsognathus triassicus".
   However, there IS no such thing as "Compsognathus triassicus".  There
   is a dinosaur Compsognathus, with the Late Jurassic species C.
longipes
   (and the probably synonym, C. corellestris), and the newly discovered
   Early Cretaceous Chinese form Sinosauropteryx prima is also probably
   referable to this genus (and thus would be renamed Compsognathus
primus).

  There is PROcompsognathus triassicus (which IS the "compy" featured
  in the novels).  Procompsognathus is a Late Triassic form, a relative
  (if not a member) of the Coelophysoidea (the group that contains
  Coelophysis, Syntarsus, Elaphrosaurus, and poor old Dilophosaurus
  [the form horribly mutated, shrunk, and given a frill and tyrannosaur
  jaws into the "Spitter" of Jurassic Park infamy])."

Thus spake T holtz (and I'm posting without asking his permission, but
it does save him from having to retype it again here anyways.....)

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