Re: Chure's Thesis Part 1

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/19/02 5:48:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com writes:

<< Olshevsky (1991) synonymized it with Allosaurus, but there is no 
justification for this.  >>

It's not entirely unjustified. I definitely read this in a published paper, 
but unfortunately I didn't save the reference (someone out there should be 
able to turn it up). As I recall, it was an article critical of Marsh and his 
science, saying that Marsh once mistook a broken-off neural spine of an 
Allosaurus for the jaw of a suilline(?) mammal. Now, whether or not the 
identification of the type specimen of Apatodon mirus as an Allosaurus neural 
spine is correct, well, that's a different question. I haven't seen the 
specimen, so I can only parrot what other people have said about it.