Dinosaur Genera List corrections #151

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Three corrections have accumulated in the past two months and only now have I 
had the time to prepare this email. I did update the Genera List itself, 
however, and in fact I've even begun to completely revamp my home page. Among 
other things, the Genera List is now on its own separate page, so that you 
can go there directly with one click from the top of my home page, without 
having to scroll through the other stuff; or bookmark it at the URL given at 
the end of this message. Eventually some of that interesting "other stuff" 
(status reports, publication descriptions, etc.), revised and updated, will 
reappear on other pages, but in the meantime I've removed it all, leaving 
just three ads (all now illustrated) for the brand-new Japanese dinosaur 
publication Dino Press #1, for Mesozoic Meanderings #3 (fewer than 60 copies 
remain of the print run), and for my perennially for sale Apatosaurus model. 
The Dino Press ad is new as of November, and editor Masaaki Inoue would 
greatly appreciate it if every dinosaur-lover in the world would order a copy 
of this handsome new publication, the lineal descendant of his previous 
magazine, Dino-Frontline.

Here are the DGL corrections (many thanks to Tom Holtz, T. Mike Keesey, and 
Adam Yates for these bits of information):

[1] The genus Ilokelesia is no longer a nomen nudum. It's description 
appeared in the Gaia theropod volume:

Coria, R. A. & Salgado, L., 2000. "A basal Abelisauria Novas 1992 
(Theropoda-Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina," in B. 
P. Perez-Moreno, T. R. Holtz, Jr., J. L. Sanz & J. Moratalla, eds., Aspects 
of Theropoda Paleobiology, Gaia 15: 89-102 [cover dated December 1998 but 
published in the autumn of 2000; 403 pp.].

so change its listing to:

Ilokelesia Coria & Salgado, 2000 (not 1998)

And its listing in the to-be-updated Mesozoic Meanderings #3, under South 
American dinosaurs, becomes:

Ilokelesia Coria & Salgado, 2000 (not 1998)
    = Ilokelesia Coria & Salgado vide Coria, 1999 [nomen nudum]
    I. aguadagrandensis Coria & Salgado, 2000 (not 1998)â

I have not yet seen the Gaia theropod volume, but according to Tom Holtz, who 
has, the genus is classified as a basal abelisaurian sister group to 
Abelisauridae + Noasauridae.

[2] Add the new genus Rocasaurus to the List as genus #895:

Rocasaurus Salgado & Azpilicueta, 2000

The citation is:

Salgado, L. & Azpilicueta, C., 2000. "Un nuevo saltasaurino (Sauropoda, 
Titanosauridae) de la provincia de RÃo Negro (Formacion Allen, CretÃcico 
superior), Patagonia, Argentina," Ameghiniana 37(3): 259-264.

I haven't seen the paper yet, but T. Mike Keesey (via Ruben D. Juarez 
Valieri) says the genus is early Maastrichtian or Campanian-Maastrichtian and 
is known from "much material."

So to the South American dinosaurs of Mesozoic Meanderings #3 we add:

Rocasaurus Salgado & Azpilicueta, 2000
    R. muniozi Salgado & Azpilicueta, 2000â

[3] Finally, the ceratopian genus Graciliceratops is no longer a nomen nudum, 
having been described in the just-released The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and 
Mongolia. The citation is:

Sereno, P. C., 2000. "The fossil record, systematics and evolution of 
pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia," in M. J. Benton, M. A. 
Shishkin, D. M. Unwin & E. N. Kurochkin, eds., The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia 
and Mongolia, Cambridge University Press: 480-516.

Yet another book I haven't yet seen. So the listing for Graciliceratops is 
revised to:

Graciliceratops Sereno, 2000

and the listing for the genus in the Asiatic Dinosaurs section of Mesozoic 
Meanderings #3 is revised to:

Graciliceratops Sereno, 2000
    = Graciliceratops Forster & Sereno, 1997 [nomen nudum]
    G. mongoliensis Sereno, 2000â

It is based on a partial skeleton previously referred to Microceratops 
gobiensis, whose type specimen Sereno redescribes as an indeterminate 
juvenile, making the genus Microceratops a nomen dubium. I'll have to read 
the paper itself to see whether I would agree with his assessment.

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