Dinosaur Genera List corrections #114

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

Received my autumn JVP yesterday, and in scanning the abstracts for the 
upcoming SVP annual meeting noticed the following new dinosaur name, buried 
in an abstract on page 34A, top of column 2:

Bilbeyhallorum Burge, Bird, McClelland & Cicconetti, 1999 [nomen nudum]

An abstract is not the usual place for the formal description of new taxon, 
and since there is no associated type species name, the genus is a nomen 
nudum. But it is published (and in the JVP, no less) and so fair game for my 
list. It's a peculiar Latin construction--seems to be a genitive noun 
honoring two people--but that doesn't matter any more.

This is the name of one of two kinds of very large ankylosaurs from the Cedar 
Mountain Formation of Utah, known from a juvenile and an adult from the same 
quarry, and two more adults found close by. The estimated adult length is 10m 
(30+ feet). This is an ankylosaurid; the other big one, also about 10m long, 
as a nodosaurid. No name was supplied in the abstract for the nodosaurid. 
There is of course a chance that Bilbeyhallorum has been formally described 
in a paper that hasn't reached me yet. If and when I see such a paper, I'll 
update the status of the name.

It becomes genus #855 in the Dinosaur Genera List.