New camptosaurid genus

[christian farrell kammerer <cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu>]

Since no one else has mentioned this, this could very well be my first
generic "scoop" onlist (I guess everyone was too consumed with
thoughts of theropod to notice it). Anyway, the latest Annales
Paleontol. features the following paper by listmember Octavio Mateus and
Miguel Antunes,describing a new Lourinha ornithopod. 

Mateus, O. and M. T. Antunes. 2001. _Draconyx loureiroi_, a new
camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of
Lourinha, Portugal. Ann. Paleontol. 87, 1, 67-73.

Amazingly enough, the name _Draconyx_ is not preoccupied, proof positive
that there are still simple Latin/Greek names left to be made. It is based
on fragmentary remains described as belonging to a single individual,
including maxillary teeth, 3 caudal centra and a chevron, the distal
epiphysis of the right humerus and femur, a manual phalanx and 3 manual
ungual phalanges, the epiphyses of the tibia and fibula, and various toe
and ankle bones. A discussion of systmematics places _Draconyx_ in the
Camptosauridae, whose only other member is Camptosaurus itself (with three
valid species, C. dispar, C. amplus, and C. prestwichii.) There is
more as well, but hopefully Dr. Mateus will comment on the paper
himself. Thus, yet another Morrison-Lourinha connection has been made,
with Camptosaurus-Draconyx complementing the preexisting
Allosaurus-Lourinhanosaurus, Diplodocus-Dinheirosaurus,
Camarasaurus-Lourinhasaurus parallels.   

-Christian Kammerer