RE: T. rex and other large carnosaurs"

["R. Irmis" <rbi@dana.ucc.nau.edu>]

My understanding was that this manuscript was around in a almost complete
state for something like 10 or 20 years!  This could explain, but not
excuse, the obsolete phylogeny.

Regards,
Randall Irmis


<<Actually, it was Madsen and Welles 2000.  Oops.
Madsen Jr., J.H. and Welles, S.P. (2000).  Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria,
Theropoda), a revised osteology.  Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous
Publications (MP-00-2): 80 p.
Yes, Samuel Welles, describer of Dilophosaurus.
I think it was peer-reviewed.  It's actually a very detailed paper, with
great illustrations.  It's just the phylogeny that is mind-bogglingly
obsolete.  Oh, and they apparently couldn't figure out that it was Paul
(1988) who assigned Megalosaurus ingens to Ceratosaurus. :-)>>