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

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:

> 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

I think "Tanycolagreus" will take the prize - when it officially become a 
name, that is.

BTW, the ceratosaurian affinities of _Spinostropheus_/_Elaphrosaurus 
gautieri_ replaces an early suggestion for this African theropod's 
affinities:

http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2002Jul/msg00370.html

[Sorry Mickey - hope this post doesn't come back to haunt you.   :-)  ]

Also, a mea culpa on my part: due to a hotmail snafu, I inadvertently sent 
two versions of my response to Brian's message on _Rapator_.  Apologies for 
clogging up everyone's mailbox.




Tim

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