R: Iguanodon (was Re: Saltasauridae (was Re: new titanosaur paper)

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

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Data: mercoledì 28 luglio 1999 21.21
Oggetto: Re: Iguanodon (was Re: Saltasauridae (was Re: new titanosaur paper)


>Most senior synonym of _Iguanodon atherfieldensis_ may be _Heterosaurus
>neocomiensis_ Cornuel 1850, recently restudied by French workers. I would
say
>_I. bernissartensis_ and _I. atherfieldensis_ belong in different genera,
but
>they're retained in _Iguanodon_ more by tradition than anything else.


Why in a different genera?
I say that there are some differences in the two species ( a lot of these
are size related) but there are also a lot of similarities that unites the
two species in the genus Iguanodon.

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