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Stegosaur stuff


Somebody off-list informed me that Barrett and Upchurch (1995) were not the first to opine that _Regnosaurus_ was actually a stegosaur:

Olshevsky, G., and Ford, T. L., 1993. The origin and evolution of the
stegosaurs: Gakken Mook, Dinosaur Frontline, v. 4, p. 65-103.

Also, in a previous post I mentioned stegosaurid remains from the Early Cretaceous of France. These came not from France, but from Portugal. (Sorry, Darren).

While on the topic of European stegosaurs, I had heard that spines originally referred to the French stegosaur _Lexovisaurus durobrivensis_ (Middle Jurassic) were not spines at all, but gill rakers of a large fish. Can anyone verify this?

Finally, I was informed (again off-list) that further stegosaur material may be known from the Wealden:

Hulke, J. W., 1874, Note on a modified form of dinosaurian ilium,
hitherto reputed scapula. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
of London 30: 521-528.





Tim

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