Re: Theropodan Holotypes - a couple more

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

Mike Keesey (mightyodinn@yahoo.com) wrote:

<_Spinosaurus aegyptiacus_
 _Carcharodontosaurus saharicus_ (2 cotypes, each one a tooth)
 
 Kind of hard to find the numbers for specimens that were obliterated
before my parents were born... or is there another way to cite these? (PDW
just says "destroyed in World War II".)>

  The only convention I have noticed at all has been to index using the
date of recovery and the specimen of that date, often written as 1920 XII
or so forth. I asked the list previously on convention of citing Stromer's
specimens, but this has been pretty flexible in the literature. I think
Sereno et al's method of 1996 and 1998 has some weight in that that was
how the specimens were referred. One might want to try to find the
accession abbreviation for Stromer's repository , but I do not think it
ever had one. Then it's initials should serve somehow.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

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