nomen conservandum

[Michael de Sosa <stygimoloch81@hotmail.com>]

Hey all,

Some of you may remember me from my sporadic posts back when I was an 
undergrad at Cal (Go Bears!), most probably not. I'm out of the field now 
(hey, I was a third author, that counts as being in the field!) but still 
retain my childlike enthusiasm for dinosaurs and paleo in general. Anyway, 
I'm back now after a couple months spent browsing the archives. Lots has 
changed! But a lot stays the same, also. Anyway, as you may have guessed 
from the fact that I'm talking right now, I want something. At least, that's 
what my parents would think.

I know that in recent years a couple of familiar dinosaur genera have been 
named nomen conservandum with neotypes by the ICZN, because they were in 
danger of becoming nomina dubia because of crappy type specimens or what 
have you... including Iguanodon (neotype: I. bernissartensis) and 
Coelophysis (neotype: Ghost Ranch stuff), and apparently, Cetiosauriscus 
(neotype: C. stewarti??).

I also heard that Cetiosaurus was being nominated with C. oxoniensis as a 
neotype.

So my questions are three:
1) Has the heroic ICZN come to the rescue of any other (non-avian) 
dinosaurs?
2) What happened with Cetiosauriscus anyway?
3) Did they do anything with Cetiosaurus (not -iscus) yet? Haven't found 
anything on this list to indicate they have. Is it at least on the short 
list?

Thanks loads,

Mike de Sosa

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