RE: Tanycolagreus topwilsoni

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Nicholas Gardner
>
> >I am still friends with the person who did most of the
> >reproduction work on it and the juvenile ceratosaur. H***, I even helped
> >reconstruct a few bones of the ceratosaur.
>
> Ceratosaurus or ceratosaurian?  Can we expect a paper sometime?

Ceratosaurus nasicornis.  See last year's SVP abstract:
Britt, B.B., D.J. Chure, T.R. Holtz, Jr., C.A. Miles & K.L. Stadtman. 2000.
A reanalysis of the phylogenetic affinities of _Ceratosaurus_ (Theropoda,
Dinosauria) based on new specimens from Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. JVP 20
(Suppl. to 3): 32A.

Don't know what Brook's idea of a timetable for getting the specimen ready
for publication is.  It is a beauty, though: the skull looks like
_Eustreptosondylus_ with little horns...

(One of our conclusions on that poster was that all the new _Ceratosaurus_
species are almost certainly just growth stages of _C. nasicornis_.).

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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