Re: R: Ceratosaurus paper

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/23/00 1:24:15 PM EST, amaris@tin.it writes:

<< If I'm right and from what I have in my computer, Megalosaurus ingens is a
 synonym of ?Ceratosaurus ingens which is a [nomen dubium] infact in the list
 of the African Dinosaurs compiled by George Olshevsky is listed as follows:
 
 Ceratosaurus Marsh, 1884
 ?C. ingens (Janensch, 1920) Paul, 1988 [nomen dubium]
       = Megalosaurus ingens Janensch, 1920 [nomen dubium] >>

The species was >originally< named Megalosaurus ingens by Janensch in 1920, 
then was placed into the genus Ceratosaurus by Greg Paul in Predatory 
Dinosaurs of the World (1988). This is the meaning of the parenthesized 
author's name following C. ingens above, and why M. ingens immediately 
follows the C. ingens. The question mark indicates that the species is 
doubtfully referred to the genus Ceratosaurus, and the [nomen dubium] 
indicates that the type material is generally considered inadequate for 
defining a species. This, incidentally, is corroborated by Madsen & Welles in 
their 2000 paper (just out) on Ceratosaurus. The type tooth seems to belong 
to a very large ceratosaurian theropod from Tendaguru in Africa, probably a 
new genus that cannot yet be defined except by size.

The two new species of Ceratosaurus in the Madsen & Welles paper will be 
listed in the second printing of MM #3, about which I'll have a more general 
note later today. Happily, the disposition of the various minor species of 
Ceratosaurus and Labrosaurus in Madsen & Welles is almost exactly the same as 
in MM #3. C. magnicornis might be the same thing as Pickering's "C. 
willisobrienorum"; the latter can't be C. dentisulcatus, because that species 
is listed separately by Pickering.

Interestingly, there is a species called "Labrosaurus huene" mentioned in the 
Madsen & Welles paper that I hadn't seen before. It is supposed to appear on 
p 481 of Huene's big book Paleontology and Phylogeny of the Lower Tetrapods 
(in German), apparently based on an undescribed tooth from Szechuan, China. 
When I was a kid, this book was available in the Buffalo Public Library and I 
read and reread it many times, but now that I want to get hold of a copy, 
it's nowhere to be found. I last saw it at the Tyrrell library in Drumheller, 
and regret not having photocopied the whole thing when I was there. If anyone 
can look it up and make sure of the spelling of the name, I'd like to hear 
from you.