RE: Laelaps and Brontosauria (was Re: Resending)

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

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Mike Taylor
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:02:35 -0500
> > From: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
> > 
> >> However who use's Brontosauria in the literature?
> > 
> > Absolutely nobody.
> 
> ... except Bakker, of course.  See for example Bakker, R. T.  1994.
> The Bite of the Bronto.  Earth 3 (6): 26-35.  This refers to
> "brontosaurs" throughout.  (It also include a skull reconstruction of
> ... *tah-dah* _Haplocanthosaurus_.  Excuse me.)

Use of "brontosaurs" by no means requires the existence of a formal taxon 
Brontosauria...

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