Re: Antarctosaurus (?) (was RE: Taxonomic Status)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Nick Pharris (NJPharris@aol.com) wrote:

<Mandible rebbachisaurid, braincase titanosaurian (I'm pretty sure).>

  True. The braincase itself compares very well to *Rapetosaurus*. Curry-Rogers 
and Forster (2001)
placed the taxon in this arrangement:¨

 --+--Antarctosaurus
   `--+--Quaesitosaurus
      `--+--Nemegtosaurus
         `--Rapetosaurus

  and braincases for all, aren´t we lucky? :)

  The holotype can be restricted, I believe to indicate only the diagnostic 
titanosaur material,
as this was the concensus opinion as of Antarctosaurus´s relationships after it 
was no longer an
"atlantosaurid." Thankfully.


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Jaime A. Headden

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