Re: Overlooked 2001 Publication/SVP/Reply to Qilongia

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: StephanPickering@cs.com

> Although it would create enormous taxonomic headaches, I believe it 
> >possible Allosaurus and Streptospondylus and Neovenator could be 
> >synonymized.

Why?  That's >really< pushing it, methinks.  With the numerous apomorphies 
that distinguish these species from one another, together with their 
widespread geographic distribution (which doesn't mean much, but still makes 
me wonder), what left is there to base their "synonymization" on?

Jordan Mallon

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