Re: Aliwalia [from Adam Yates]

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

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

It was probably all Greek to them.

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

The right SR2 is not preserved.  (I snipped this detail out.)  I would guess 
that if the characters was susceptible to intraindividual variation, it 
would cease to be diagnostic.  So far, we don't know either way.

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

> From memory, Moser contradicts quite a bit of Galton's work.  I'll check the 
details.

Cheers

Tim