Fwd: RE: Echinodon + Stenoplix

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Tracy asked me to send this along to the list:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Jaime A. Headden
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:25 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Cc: fam.jansma@worldonline.nl
> Subject: Re: Echinodon + Stenoplix
> 
> Jaime A. Headden wrote:
> 
>   *Echinodon*'s cranial material has been illustrated in Glut's Dino
> Encyclopedia, and the new skull material refered to this taxon from the
> Morrison has been illustrated by Tracy Ford in the [most horribly
> outdated
> and error-riven] _Dinosaur Dictionary_ by Lessem and Glut, published by
> the Dinosaur Society in 1993. It's rather cute, you know....<<
> 
> If only it was written the WAY IT WAS SUPPOSE TO HAVE BEEN DONE! (and I
> did
> get screwed on payment from this book; but not by George, long story).
> IT
> would have blown away Glut's Encyclopedia's!
> 
> 
> >>  As for *Stenopelyx*, the original description is in German, though
> Galton did a redescription with Weishampel, I think (I have been trying
> to
> locate appropriate refs on this and may have to lament to Tracy for
> help...). There is no cranial material. The postcrania is very
> marginocephalian, but recent study in light of new analyses on basal
> ceratopians and the basal pachycephalosaur *Goyocephale* has not been
> done, and would certainly assist in the affinities of *Stenopelyx*. It
> does appear to be the most basal marginocephalian, but falls outside
> either Pachycephalosauria and Ceratopsia in most authors opinions that I
> am aware of (Including Norman and Weishampel, Dodson, Glut, etc....) and
> is thus not a true marginocephalian, but a member of the stem-clade
> Marginocephalia (unnamed).<<
> 
> =====
> 
> Actually it was Sues.
> 
> Original article
> 
>  Koken, E., 1887, Die Dinosaurier, Crocodiliden und Sauropterygier des
> Norddeutschen Wealden: Palaeontologische Abhandlungen, Dritter band,
> heft 5,
> p. 3-111.
> 
> Second article
> 
> Schmidt, H., 1969, Stenopelix valdensis H. v. Meyer, der kleine
> Dinosaurier
> des norddeutschen Wealden: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 43, n. 3-4,
> p.
> 194-198.
> 
> Last article
> 
> Sues, H.-D., 1982, The systematic position of Stenopelix valdensis
> (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Wealden of North-Western Germany:
> Palaeontographica, Abt. A, v. 178, lfg, 4-6, p. 183-190.
> 
> Tracy L. Ford
> P. O. Box 1171
> Poway Ca  92074
> 
> 


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