Re: dino tracks near Syracuse?

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> <<Interestingly, the paper I have here says that direct fossile evidence
> takes presedence over indirect evidence, and thusly the name _Coelophysis_
> is retained and _Grallator_ dropped.>>
>
> Actually, there is really no way in the world we can assign these
footprints
> to Coelophysis.

Of course there is a way to prove *Coelophysis* made _a certain_ *Grallator*
trackway -- to find a skeleton on the end of a track. Of course this
wouldn't be any evidence that _all_ *Grallator* prints were made by
*Coelophysis*, therefore the following is correct. The same holds AFAIK for
eggshells.

> Pretty much any theropod the size of the footprints could
> have made them.  Therefore, Grallator is most certainly retained.  It is
> what is refered to as a form genus, and refers to the form of the
footprint,
> since we cant refer to any body fossil genus.