Re: Details on Capitalsaurus (revised)

["Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>]

George Olshevsky wrote-

> Hey, since when did Creosaurus potens become the "type" species of
> "Capitalsaurus"?

Did nobody read my Details on "Capitalsaurus" post when I originally sent it
in November of 2000? ;-)

It's sort of a tricky situation.  Creosaurus potens (Lull, 1911) is based on
the same specimen as "Capitalsaurus" (Kranz, 1998).  I've verified this by
talking to Kranz and Lipka.  It's certainly not Allosaurus (=Creosaurus),
nor is it Dryptosaurus (as suggested by Gilmore 1921).  So Kranz wanted to
place it in a new genus, hence "Capitalsaurus".  Thus, we get the
unpublished combination "Capitalsaurus" potens.  It's a lot like your
Ponerosteus thing, except that it is more diagnostic and the genus is a
nomen nudum.  Of course, there may be some technicalities I don't
realize....

Mickey Mortimer