Re: Streptospondylus: new ref

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/23/01 1:07:38 PM EST, cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu 
writes:

<< Redescribes _S. altdorfensis_, and finds it to be a valid, diagnosable
 taxon (I can't read French, so I don't know what features support
 this.) All large theropod remains from the Callovo-Oxfordian of the Vaches
 Noires are referred to this taxon, inlcuding the 
 following: Streptospondylus rostro-major sensu Owen, 
 1842; Streptospondylus cuvieri Owen, 1842 (Megalosaurus cuvieri); Laelaps
 gallicus Cope,1867; Eustreptospondylus divesensis Walker, 1964
 partim; and "crocodile fossils" Cope, 1800;1824. Some vertebral features
 link _Streptospondylus_ with _Eustreptospondylus_, and both taxa are
 assigned to the Spinosauroidea. >>

Robert Long noted Streptospondylus altdorfensis was a theropod more than 20 
years ago, when he and Sam Welles and Philip Powell had been looking at 
European theropod taxa (Piveteausaurus is something that came out of this 
work). The resulting monograph remains unpublished. This observation was 
picked by Stephan Pickering and also by me, and Streptospondylus altdorfensis 
appears in Mesozoic Meanderings #2 first printing (1991) listed as an 
allosaurid. Good to see that someone has finally published on the material.