Re: Aliwalia [from Adam Yates]

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

> And as we all know, dinosaur nomenclature is *always* logical.  :-)

Well, I figured people still knew Greek in 1920...

(I don't, though.)

> > *Massospondylus* as a sauropod. Will I ever get used to this... ;-)
>
> If little _Anchisaurus_ is a sauropod, why not _Massospondylus_?  :-)

*A.* was just one, plus it fitted certain pictures. Now it's the opposite, 
we seem to have only 2, 3 or 4 species of prosauropod left.

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

Ah, _that_ one... the one I still haven't copied because I never had the 
time...

> _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...

Just the left one? Is the right one not preserved, or is this a case of 
intraindividual variation like in *Mirischia*?

> 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).

Oh. Rhaetian. Does *Plateosaurus* extend into the Rhaetian, too?

Is *P. longiceps* regarded as a separate species in this paper, as it is in 
Galton's two-part monograph?