Streptospondylus and "Laelaps" gallicus

["Tim Williams" <tijawi@hotmail.com>]

Christian Kammerer wrote:

<< 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.)

Merci to Jean-Michel Benoit for translating the important anatomical 
features.

My French is too poor to determine if Allain regards the following names as 
subjective (i.e. referred material) or objective junior synonyms (different 
names for the same material) of _S. altfordensis_:

_Streptospondylus rostromajor_ sensu Owen, 1842
_Streptospondylus cuvieri_ Owen, 1842
_Laelaps gallicus_ Cope,1867

Can anyone help?

(What is clear from Allain's work is that _Piveteausaurus divesensis_ is 
distinct from _S. altfordensis_.)

It was also my impression (from other sources) that the site which yielded 
_Laelaps gallicus_ was unidentified (apart from being somewhere in 
Normandy).  How sure is Allain that the _L. gallicus_ type material comes 
from Vaches Noires, Calvados?


> Some vertebral features
> link _Streptospondylus_ with _Eustreptospondylus_,

According to Oliver Rauhut, _Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis_ belongs in 
_Magnosaurus_.



Tim

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