Re: Aristosuchus: 'Superior...but only in confusion!'

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Tommy Bradley wrote-

> If I've got this right, Fox named the material *Calamospondylus* in 1866.
> Then, Owen emended it to *Poikilopleuron pusillus* in 1876.  Then, Seeley
> emended it to *Aristosuchus pusillus* in 1887.
> Correct?

Nope.

> I'm very confused by this whole situation and hoping someone out their can
> give me the straight version.

Aristosuchus Seeley 1887
A. pusillus (Owen 1876) Seeley 1887
= Poekilopleuron pusillus Owen 1876
= Poekilopleuron minor Owen vide Cope 1878
Holotype- (BMNH R178) two dorsal vertebrae (21 mm), first sacral vertebra
(25 mm), second sacral vertebra (29 mm), third sacral vertebra (24 mm),
fourth sacral vertebra (23 mm), fifth sacral vertebra (21 mm), two caudal
vertebrae (28 mm), manual ungual (34 mm), distal pubes

Calamosaurus Lydekker 1891
C. foxi (Lydekker, 1889) Lydekker 1891
= Calamospondylus foxi Lydekker 1889
Holotype- (BMNH R901) two cervical vertebrae (40 mm)

Calamospondylus Fox vide anonymous 1866
C. oweni Fox vide anonymous 1866
Holotype- (lost) sacrum (152 mm), ilial fragments

Mickey Mortimer