Re: Tanycolagreus topwilsoni

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In a message dated 10/9/01 4:22:22 PM EST, rbi@dana.ucc.nau.edu writes:

<< On my way to SVP, I visited the new North American Museum of Ancient Life
 near Salt Lake City, UT.  They had on display a partial real skeleton of
 something called "Tanycolagreus topwilsoni" along with several mounted casts
 and a very nice sculpture.  It is from the Morrison Formation and seems very
 Ornitholestes like in the postcrania. >>

Tracy Ford and I visited the same museum en route back from the Bozeman show. 
The generic name appears in the museum's guide pamphlet (though the specific 
name does not) and is thus a published generic name in the sense used by the 
Dinosaur List. I'll be adding it as #925 shortly. It's from the Bone Cabin 
Quarry and was initially thought to be an individual of the genus Coelurus. 
It is not stated why it is different, though presumably it is some kind of 
coelurid. Karen Cloward at the museum didn't know where (or whether) the 
genus has been formally described. Credit for the name is given to Kenneth 
Carpenter and Clifford Miles on a museum label.

Another new genus/species at the museum, this one pterosaurian, is 
Harpactognathus gentryi, for a Scaphognathus-like rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur 
from Bone Cabin Quarry. I don't see it in any of the guidebook materials we 
picked up on our visit, so it should be regarded as an unpublished name and 
should not be used in publications until it is formally described.