Re: Placement of Segnosauria (was Re: Details on Nanshiungosaurus bohlini)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/7/00 1:14:48 PM EST, kinman@hotmail.com writes:

<< According to one of your posts elsewhere on the Internet, Desertiana 
 is a "form taxon" for small segnosaurs that supposedly ate wasps' nests.  
 The name was apparently proposed in Nessov, 1995 (monograph on dinosaur 
 localities). >>

Thanks for the reminder. I found the taxon in Nessov 1995 (p. 10) as a new 
genus for the form taxon Celliforma favosites, which Nessov identified as a 
kind of fossilized wasp's nest. This is supposed to have been segnosaur food. 
So Desertiana favosites isn't a dinosaur.