Re: Solnhofen theropod

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

>>Has anything more been published on the Solnhofen theropod mentioned by
Gunther Viohl in Archaeopteryx 17? Every time I see it mentioned it gets
described as "a type of Compsognathus".
I've only seen the picture in Paleozoica, but I can't help thinking it looks
more like "Syntarsus" rhodesiensis.

Anyway, does anyone have any more info?<<

[back from grandparents and from reading 530 e-mails in 2 days... whew!]
I've never seen Archaeopteryx or Paleozoica :-( . All I know is that there
are _two_ undescribed nonavian theropod specimens from there, one nicknamed
Borsti* and claimed onlist to be a possible troodontid (no reasons given).
>From the limited-quality photos I've seen I'd say it's a basal coelurosaur
(yippee, one more in that polytomy), which means I have hardly looked at
them. :-)

I'd like to point out that Viohl's first name is Günther, contra DA. This is
important because four versions of that name, Gunter, Gunther, Günter and
Günther, exist (the first two and the last two are pronounced the same way,
respectively). People who can't manage to get the dots into an e-mail should
use ue for ü (and ae and oe for ä and ö), as usual in German in such
situations. (Sometimes this goes far... Science could have printed the dots,
yet Prof. Christian Köberl prophylactically authored his et aliorum paper on
footprints around the Tr-J boundary as Koeberl. A trap for all who haven't
been in the Vienna University "geocenter" because real ae, oe and ue exist
in some surnames.)

* Borste is bristle. Supposedly in allusion to its "thick teeth" and not any
integumentary structures, but that sounds strange... I haven't found any
bristles in the photos I've seen so far, though. -i is the usual suffix for
nicknames.