HYPSELORHACHIS

[<darren.naish@port.ac.uk>]

Hi all. Have just returned from being on holiday so I think this post is 
about two weeks late, but what the hell. 

_Hypselorhachis mirabilis_ from the Manda Fm was mentioned 
recently on the list. I happened to be going through some stuff on 
Triassic archosaurs recently and chanced upon Bernard Krebs' 1969 
paper '_Ctenosauriscus koeneni_ (v. Huene), die Pseudosuchia und die 
Buntsandstein-Reptilien' (_Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae_ 62, 697-
714). Krebs' discusses _H. mirabilis_ and suggests that it is a 
ctenosauriscid archosaur allied to _Ctenosauriscus_. The name _H. 
mirabilis_ can apparently be attributed to Charig in Appleby et al. 1967 
(this is the Reptilia section from Harland et al. (_The Fossil Record_)).

Incidentally, there is also discussion in this paper of _Teleocrater 
rhadinus_ (also Charig in Appleby et al. 1967) and the Teleocrateridae. 
I recall that at the 1998 SVP meeting in Denver there was a poster 
about _Ctenosauriscus_: haven't had time to check the abstract vol for 
this.

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