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First of all, I researched a bit and found out that
Olshevsky's emendation from T. tilletti to T. tillettorum was declared
unjustified. See
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1997Feb/0514.html for more details. So, it should be T. tilletti in
my cladograms. That's what I get for not working with ornithopods
more....
Mike Taylor wrote-
> Do you still not have a web-site where you
accumulate copies of all these staggeringly
> informative "Details on ..."
posts?
As Mike Keesey and Fred Bervoets have noted, both
have agreed to place my posts on their sites. Also, as Mike noted, I have
not had time to convert my previous segments to HTML format. It's either
do that, or write more (I've apparently done 37... wow). I will try to
make some time this week to get a few up there. Also, I can correct errors
before they go up on the Dinosauricon. Fred's site is helpful in that I
don't have to convert the posts myself, but some things I wrote on a few taxa
(Rapetosaurus, Monkonosaurus, "Gigantspinosaurus" and Yingshanosaurus) ended up
there, despite not being actual Details on... segments. Hell, a
hypothetical "Details on "Gigantspinosaurus"" would be even less informative
than my "Details on "Anabisetia"" :-) . I have also accumulated them all
into a Word document, if any would like them in that format.
Tom Holtz wrote-
> While the first
three are fair game, PLEASE DO NOT DO SO for "Nothronychus", as it is not
> yet formally
described in the literature. When detailed descriptions show up in mass
mailings > like these, they have the potential to jeopardize the publication
of the actual techincal papers if > they are not yet
published!
Okay.
Agreed. I couldn't say much about "Nothronychus" in any case, I've only
seen a manual ungual and ischium. This is one of the reasons I don't write
a "Details on Labocania" (which is the most common request I get),
because I hear Lamanna and Smith are redescribing it. Citipati and
Khaan would be easy, but JVP is pretty easily accessable and the taxa are
obviously oviraptorids. I try to write about taxa described in obscure
journals or those I have different ideas for their relationships.
Oviraptorid interrelationships are a worthy area of study, but I have not looked
into it closely. Jaime Headden has some ideas about
that.
Mickey
Mortimer
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