RE: grant for antonio and Where have all the ornithischians gone

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

<< Where have all the  ornithischians gone?
> Petrified Forest find wipes out record of these  Triassic dinosaurs outside 
> South America

To be fair, the jury is still out for other alleged Late Triassic 
ornithischians (_Galtonia_, _Tecovasaurus_, _Pekinosaurus_, etc).  One or 
more of these *might* be ornithischian; we need further material to 
demonstrate this, either way.

I'm not sure of the status of _Azendohsaurus_, from the Late Triassic 
(Carnian) of Morocco (and Madagascar?).  In the past it has been regarded as 
ornithischian, then as a mixture of ornithischian and sauropodomorph 
material; but Jalil and Knoll (2002 - SVP abstract) even cast doubt on its 
dinosaurian nature, based on referred material (including postcranial 
elements found with _Azendohsaurus_ cranial bits) from the type locality.  
Another mysterious taxon, but probably not ornithischian.

And then there's _Technosaurus_, from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Texas.  
I had thought the original material included both ornithischian and 
sauropodomorph material, and a putative ornithischian dentary was designated 
as the lectotype.  Or am I way off-base and/or out-of-date about this?

Frank Bliss wrote:

> The DML has funded, now it is up to Fabio to do the hard work.

Wouldn't it be great if both the DML and Frank were honored in the name of 
this hadrosaur.  Maybe "Epistellosaurus blissi".  :-)

Cheers

Tim