Dinosaur Genera List corrections #155

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A couple of weeks ago I added name #898 to the Dinosaur Genera List:

Jeholosaurus Xu, Wang & You, 2000

Tracy Ford sent the citation:

Xu, X., Wang X. and You H., "A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous 
Yixian Formation of Liaoning," Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(4): 318-325.

It comes from Lujiatun (new locality to me), Shangyuan, Beipiao City, 
Liaoning Province, China.

Type species is Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis, based on a nearly complete 
skull, dorsally flattened; a referred skull that is laterally compressed; and 
a few skeletal elements. For now it is Ornithischia incertae sedis, and the 
describers say a longer paper is forth coming.

Today (1/24/01) I added name #899, almost certainly the first dinosaur to be 
described in the new millennium:

Masiakasaurus Sampson, Carrano & Forster, 2001

It's in the 1/25/01 issue of Nature (cover-featured) and it has made 
headlines everywhere because the species epithet honors Dire Straits rock 
musician Mark Knopfler. An abstract of the paper is freely available at the 
Nature website

www.nature.com/nature/

The dinosaur is described as a kind of small abelisaurian theropod with 
procumbent anterior dentition, from Madagascar.

Also added to the Dinosaur Genera List today is more information about the 
listed non-dinosaurian genera, which are flagged with asterisks. These are 
genera that at one time or another (usually when originally described) were 
considered to be non-avian dinosaurs. In addition to flagging their names, 
the List now tells how each non-dinosaurian genus is currently classified. If 
anybody has more detailed information about these genera than appears in the 
chart, please e-mail me and I'll update their listings.

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Added to the list of dinosaurs of China, Mongolia, and eastern Asia in the 
next printing of Mesozoic Meanderings #3:

Jeholosaurus Xu, Wang & You, 2000
    J. shangyuanensis Xu, Wang & You, 2000â

Added to the list of dinosaurs from Africa and Madagascar:

Masiakasaurus Sampson, Carrano & Forster, 2001
    M. knopfleri Sampson, Carrano & Forster, 2001â

(In case the dagger at the end of each species name doesn't transmit 
correctly, both species are type species of their genera. I denote type 
species with daggers in the MM #3 tables. My e-mail text is transmitted with 
italic and boldface typography in place, but it rarely survives the 
transmission with this typography.)