"re: t. rex and other large carnosaurs"/re: Ceratosaurus

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

On 4 April 1996, I published King Kong: unauthorized Jewish fractals in philopatry (Capitola, California: A Fractal Scaling in Dinosaurology Project). Copies of this (on high-quality, "glossy" paper, etc.) were distributed by Mike Fredericks with copies of his Prehistoric Times throughout the world. On page 13:
     ...Ceratosaurus may be defined as that Neoceratosauria taxon having: premaxilla-
     maxilla fenestra; lacrimal fenestra; rostral prong of angular contacts dentary-splenial
     concavity; humerus sigmoid in cranial view; anterior blade of ilium dorsoventrally
     expanded; metatarsals proximally fused.
     Within the Ceratosaurus hypodigm is another, larger species (Tithonian, Brushy
     Basin Member Morrison Formation) from Fruita, Colorado and Utah's Cleveland-
     Lloyd Quarry), Ceratosaurus willisobrienorum sp. nov. ...
For the record, on the same page I cite as the type specimen of my species MWC 1, and the referred specimen is the UUVP disarticulated specimen (numbers listed). My diagnosis on
page 13 of my publication:
     ...a Ceratosaurus with premaxilla L:H index 80, Pm 3/M15, caudal spines higher
     and persist farther beyond transition point than C. nasicornis, and the apexes of
     the spines have no thickening.
In my in-progress Mutanda Dinosaurologica, my 1996 species is thoroughly illustrated with
photographs of all of the MWC skeleton, and detailed descriptions provided to me by the late Sam Welles. We believed both specimens represented the same species, but distinct from the USNM mounted type. "Podokesauridae" is not used in my book, being a nomen dubium predicated upon indeterminate scrap, and Sam and I both believed Proceratosaurus is not a ceratosaur (in my book, Sam's detailed osteological exposition and comparisons demonstrate it is closest to Ornitholestes). Since Sam's death, to be sure, the referred UUVP specimen has  been recatalogued as UMNH 5278.
Four years after my publication (2000 C.E.) James Madsen released  a poorly illustrated monograph, erecting Ceratosaurus magnicornis for MWC 1 and C. dentisulcatus for UMNH 5278, using copies of the SPWelles mss. pages on this taxon. 
My Ceratosaurus willisobrienorum 1996 has clear priority, being published with a diagnosis, a designated type specimen, a designated referred specimen.