RE: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

Where's my bloody mandatory pronunciation guide, now, eh? Names in Nahuatl like 
this seem all the more reason to make pronunciation guides mandatory, 
regardless of language!

On that, I presume "hweh-hweh-can-wat-lus" but that's my off-the-cuff thought.

Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden
  The Bite Stuff (site v2)
  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
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> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:51:32 +1100
> From: dannj@alphalink.com.au
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid
>
> In lieu of a pronunciation guide, I think I'll call this fellow 'Huey' for 
> short. :-)
>
> On Thu, Feb 16th, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jay <jayp.nair@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis
> >
> > Ramírez-Velasco AA, Benammi M, Prieto-Márquez A, Ortega JA, 
> > Hernández-Rivera R (2012)
> > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: 
> > Ornithopoda) from the
> > Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Earth 
> > Sciences 49(2):
> > 379-395.
> > http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e11-062
> >
> >
> > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis gen. et sp. nov. is the southernmost 
> > diagnostic basal hadrosauroid
> > in the Americas. The holotype and referred material of this taxon came from 
> > Santonian strata in
> > the Michoacán State, southwestern Mexico. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis is 
> > diagnosed on the
> basis
> > of a combination of dental, axial, and appendicular characters, including 
> > the following: at least
> > two teeth exposed on the occlusal plane of the dentary and maxilla; seven 
> > sacral vertebrae; tall
> > neural spines of caudal vertebrae; supraacetabular process long; and short 
> > and trapezoidal (in
> > lateral view) postacetabular process. It differs from other hadrosauroids 
> > in having an ilium with
> > extreme ventral deflection of the preacetabular process. Maximum
> > parsimony cladistic analysis placed H. tiquichensis as a closely related 
> > outgroup to
> > Hadrosauridae. The occurrence of H. tiquichensis in the Santonian of North 
> > America may be
> > explained as a dispersal event from Asia to North America that occurred no 
> > later than the Albian
> > or, alternatively, as a vicariant event of a most recent common ancestor 
> > widespread in both
> > landmasses.
>
> --
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> Dann Pigdon
> Spatial Data Analyst Australian Dinosaurs
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