Humor, kind of... (was RE: new paper on three African abelisauroids)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Tim Williams
>
> _Spinostropheus gautieri_ (gen. et comb. nov.) based on material
> (disarticulated vertebrae, partial left humerus and partial right
>  tibia;
> MNHN collection) originally described as _Elaphrosaurus gautieri_
> (Lapparent
> 1960), plus referred vertebrae (MNN TIG6).  This is a basal
> ceratosaurian of
> Neocomian age, more derived than _Elaphrosaurus_ and _Ceratosaurus_.
> _Spinostropheus_ is given as the sister taxon to the Abelisauroidea
> (=Abelisauridae+Noasauridae).

Incidentally, when I first encountered the name "Spinostropheus", I pegged
it as the all-time winner of the "Name That Most Sounds Like It Was Coined
By Freidrich von Huene, But Wasn't" contest

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