WEALDEN DROMAEOSAURS, JOSH TV STAR

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

On reported dromaeosaur-stegosaur occurrences, Mickey 
wrote..
 
> Wealden Formation (Ornithodesmus; Regnosaurus)

Sorry to be proverbially anal, but there is no 'Wealden 
Formation': formally, there is a Wealden Group which 
(together with the Hastings Group) is the Wealden 
Supergroup. _Ornithodesmus_ and the type material of 
_Regnosaurus_ are not contemporaneous - within the 
Wealden Group, _Ornithodesmus_ is from the Wessex 
Formation (which is only exposed on the Isle of Wight and 
is Barremian-Aptian) while _Regnosaurus_ is from an 
unnamed Valanginian unit. 

Material referred to _Regnosaurus_ (by George, in the 
Dinosaur Folios) has since been reported from the Wessex 
Formation however, bringing us full circle:) In the absence 
of overlapping material, this material cannot be shown to be 
_Regnosaurus_ though and in Naish and Martill (in 
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight) we have it as Stegosauria 
indet.

Congrats to Josh, Matt and the rest for a really good 
dinosaur documentary (Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt). This is 
the first science-based documentary I've seen in ages that I 
didn't find insulting, patronising, over-simplified or crap. 
The biographical info on Stromer was nice and I was 
amazed to see the glass slide of the mounted _Spinosaurus_ 
type.. as Josh said: "He had it mounted (!!!)". Wow. The 
human side made it fun two - there were some hilarious 
one-liners (akin to "Dude, where's my car" [sorry]), sadly I 
haven't committed them to memory. The one thing I did 
object to a bit was the implication that Stromer and his work 
had been forgotten or neglected - I suppose this is true to a 
degree but, among those of us who work on dinosaurs, 
Stromer and his dinosaurs have always been at the forefront 
of our awareness. Oh yeah, I think Jerry made a brief guest 
appearance.

Darren Naish
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Portsmouth
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