New refs 35?

["Ralph Chapman" <Chapman.Ralph@NMNH.SI.EDU>]

And now some stuff I'm running into from semi-recent piles
that I am going through as I catch up with a bunch of
things. I've given up keeping up with what others have
reported on and will just bluster through - so please excuse
any dups, hopefully not of my own reports.

If I owe anyone pubs, by the way,  please remind me so I
can square all accounts:


Borsuk-Bialynicka, M., E. Cook, S.E. Evans & T. Maryanska.

   1999.  A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early
Triassic of 
   Poland.   Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 44(2):167-188.

Any Early Triassic stuff is very welcome and this is very
interesting and includes some procolophonids, a small thing
that is either a predatory archosaur of either a
proterosuchid pr pre-pro grade, and some lepidosauromorpha
material. Amphibs are also present including the first
European stem frog (salientian) described earlier
(Czatkobatrachus polonicus Evans & B-B, 1998), and some
fish. Neato.


Barsbold, R. & H. Osmolska. 1999. The skull of Velociraptor

   (Theropoda)   from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta

   Palaeontologica Polonica,  44(2):189-219.

Discussion of the differences between V. mogoliensis and
Deinonychus antirrhopus, as well as a detailed anatomical
discussion and mention of other droms.


Gierlinski, G. 1999. Tracks of a large thyreophoran
dinosaur 
   From the Early Jurassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica
   Polonica, 44(2):231-234

A neat little paper describing a large ornithischian track
that appears to be thyreophoran contra an earlier
description by the same author. He suggests may be something
like Scelidosaurus harrisonii. Even includes some 3-d
digitizations. Nice.


Kellner, A.W.A. & D. de Almeida Campos. 1999. Vertebrate 
   paleontology  In Brazil - a review. Episodes,
22(3):238-251.

Real nice review with, as hoped, some nice discussion of
the Santana Formation, which currently has a #1 hit on the
pop charts (sorry, wrong Santana). Episodes uses small
picture boxes at the end to show what the authors look like
and, somehow everyone looks like they escaped from prison in
them and this is no exception. Lots of computer journals
(IEEE) do this and it's the same ways, although some have
done neat things like used their dog for the picture, or a
digitized head. I'll try that if I ever have to.


Buffetaut, E. & V. Suteethorn. 1998. The biogeographical
   significance of the Mesozoic vertebrates from Thailand.

   Pp. 83-90. In Hall, R. & J.D. Holloway, eds.
Biogeography
   and Geological Evolution of SE Asia, Backhuys, Leiden.

Nice review of the implications of the known Mesozoic
vertebrate fauna from Thailand by the two who should know.
Suggests isolation of Asia lessened until its end in the
early Cretaceous.


Antunes, M.T. 1999. Veiga Ferreira e a Paleontologia
   Em Portugal. Ciencias da Terra (UNL), No. 13:157-167.
   [In Portugese with English abstract]

Review of the paleontological work of Octavio da Veiga
Ferreira. Includes discussion of the croc Pelagosaurus. We
really need to get proactive (government word here) about
assembling some detailed essays on the history of vertebrate
paleontology, and paleontology in general, in countries
other than the US, England and France. Great to have them
but there are so many important contributions and
contributors in other areas and really want to be less
ignorant than I am about them. Those of us who do historical
sciences should be especially interested in our history. I
hope to really delve into one of my heros Ameghino, who,
like Barrande, was amazingly ahead of his time in many ways.
If someone knows of a biography, please let me know. It's
a project for the next couple years, along with getting a
translation of his book on phylogenetic analysis (including
numerical discussions) which predate this - I mean the
previous century. Anyone who would care to do it, please let
me know and I'll happily be a consumer rather than a
generator of this. Also, I really would like to see a
published history of paleontology in Russia - I know more on
this and there are many great ones. Any takers?


Antunes, M.T. 1999. Dinosaurs and Portugal.
    Ciencias da Terra (UNL), No. 13:59-69.
   [In Portugese with English abstract]

This is a start on this for Portugal. Nice. Need more.


Damiani, R.J. 1999. Parotosuchus (Amphibia, 
   Temnospondyli) in Gondwana: biostratigraphic and
   palaeobiogeographic implications. S. African J. Sci.,
   95:458-460.

First really good occurrence of Parotosuchus in
Gondwanaland, with implications.


That's enough for now,

Ralph Chapman, NMNH







Ralph E. Chapman
Applied Morphometrics Laboratory
National Museum of Natural history
ADP, EG-15  NHB, 10th & Constitution, NW
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560-0136
(202) 786-2293, Fax: (202) 357-4122
Chapman.Ralph@nmnh.si.edu