Re: Details on Capitalsaurus (revised)

["Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>]

Tracy L. Ford wrote-

> AH, say what?!
> Reference- Kranz, P. M., 1998. Mostly Dinosaurs: A Review of the
Vertebrates
> of the Potomac Group (Aptian Arundel Formation), USA, in Lucas, Kirkland
and
> Estep, eds., 1998: 235-238.
> No where in the article does Kranz make Capitalsaurus = Creosaurus potens
> nor does he formally name Capitalsaurus in the article. No appendix, or a
> footnote.
> When he refers to Capitalsaurus he puts it in quotes "Capitalsaurus"; as
in
> Large carnivore, "Capitalsaurus, (type of evidence), vertebra; Large
> carnivore (possibly "Capitalsaurus"), teeth and various isolated post
> crania.
> Don't start supposing and miss interpreting things to make something its
> not. You have to be careful; this will confuse people even more.

I'm aware he didn't formally name the taxon (nor do I think he plans to,
theropods not being his area of expertise), which is why it's in quotation
marks in my Details on... segment.  I've spoken to Kranz personally about
"Capitalsaurus" and he's told me the Creosaurus potens vertebra is the
specimen it is based on.  I wouldn't have written "Details on Capitalsaurus"
if I wasn't sure I had the right specimen.

Mickey Mortimer