RE: Pterosaur diversity (was: Re: Waimanu)

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

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Jaime A. Headden
>
> David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:
>
> <However, it is certainly not good for my results that I haven't been able to
> get either measurements for *Magnirostris* and *Udanoceratops* or a phylogeny
> of Leptoceratopsidae.>
>
>   We should be thankful that Makovicky named the taxon Leptoceratopidae, the
> first Latin-grammatically-correct ceratopsian "family" clade name to date.

Ummm...

In my copy of _Mesozoic Vertebrate Life_, I find the following on pp. 253-354:

253     "The stem-based taxon Lepto-
254     "ceratopsidae is erected here to accomodate this clade, and is defined 
as all taxa closer to _Leptoceratops gracilis_ than to
_Triceratops horridus_."

The spelling "Leptoceratopsidae" is also present on p. 262. I cannot find a 
spot where Pete used "Leptoceratopidae" in that paper.

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