Re: Rauhut's Thesis

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>]

ekaterina amalitzkaya wrote-

> Were there not some reports on the DML Feb 2001 of Rauhut's neu
discoveries
> in Argentina?

Ah, http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2001Feb/msg00517.html .  No
mention of these.  I would think they would be in the very preliminary steps
of excavation.  Not to mention the story was published after the thesis was
written.

> Yes, Mr. Smith had mentioned publishing this sometime this year, looking
> forward to that one. They also mention an early abelisaur and a new
> tetanuran in that JVP abstract; were these published?

The only specimens described in that abstract are two referrable to a new
deinonychosaur.  The tetanurine you're thinking of is probably "Aniksosaurus
darwini" (Martinez and Novas, 1997), a probable basal coelurosaur that is
still undescribed.  The Bajo Barreal abelisaurid (Martinez, Maure, Oliva and
Luna 1993) is also undescribed, but being worked on.

Mickey Mortimer