Re: Aliwalia [from Adam Yates]

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

> Really? Everywhere I've read that name so far it said "*Eucnemesaurus 
> fortis* van Hoepen, 1920" -- looks logical, if "kneme" means "leg", as in 
> *Bradycneme*.

And as we all know, dinosaur nomenclature is *always* logical.  :-)  
(Actually, I thought it was _Eucnemesaurus_ too, with an "e".)

> *Massospondylus* as a sauropod. Will I ever get used to this... ;-)

If little _Anchisaurus_ is a sauropod, why not _Massospondylus_?  :-)

> Does someone have the ref of the paper in which *Gresslyosaurus* was 
> reinstated? (Of course a pdf would be appreciated as well... <g>)

Moser, M. (2003). _Plateosaurus engelhardti_ Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria: 
Sauropodomorpha) aus dem Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) von Bayern.  
Zitteliana B 24: 3-186.

No dice on a pdf: the publication is nearly 200 pages long.  
_Gresslyosaurus_ is reinstated by Moser based on sacral morphology: "...at 
the ventral side of the left SR2 [sacral rib 2] ... there is a deep groove, 
which extends onto the corpus and is bordered caudally by a strong 
lamella... This character is not found in _Plateosaurus_ and _Sellosaurus_, 
therefore it is accepted as a diagnostic character for a separate genus 
_Gresslyosaurus_ from the Rhaetian." (Moser, 2003; p.168).


Cheers

Tim