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paleonet Dinosaur Genera List update #199



In the something more than three months since DGL update #198, I've added six 
new names to the Dinosaur Genera List and updated five others. I held off 
this DGL update awaiting copies of the relevant papers, and now that some 
have arrived, I can begin to clear out the little backlog that has developed. 
This update covers the first two of the six new entries; the others I'll deal 
with in updates over the next week or three.

Names #971 and 972 are

Dromaeosauroides Christiansen & Bonde, 2003
Lusotitan Telles Antunes & Mateus, 2003

Here are their Dinosaur Catalogue entries (apologies for awkward typography):

    Dromaeosauroides Christiansen & Bonde, 2003
Theropoda > Tetanurae > Coeluria > Maniraptora >
Deinonychosauria > Dromaeosauridae > Dromaeosaurinae
Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis Christiansen & Bonde, 2003†
    Lower Cretaceous > Upper Berriasian/Valanginian (Ryazanian) > Nyker Grp. 
> Jydegaard Fm. > clay layer above "Robbedale Gravel" and Neomiodon bed
    Europe > Denmark > Isle of Bornholm  > Robbedale, E of Rønne > Carl 
Nielsen's Pit
    MGUH DK 315: Anterior dentary tooth
    Hypodigm APK:1/0: Holotype tooth only
    The initial description of Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis by Christiansen 
& Bonde (2003) was supplemented by a more detailed description (including the 
specimen number, not yet assigned in the initial paper) in Bonde & 
Christiansen (2003)

and

    Lusotitan Telles Antunes & Mateus, 2003
    Brontosauria > Sauropoda > Eusauropoda > Brachiosauridae
Lusotitan atalaiensis (de Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957) Telles Antunes & 
Mateus, 2003†
    Brachiosaurus atalaiensis de Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957: Original name
    Brachiosaurus ataliensis Paul, 1988: Misspelling
    Brachiosaurus botalaiensis Janensch, 1961: Misspelling
    Upper Jurassic > Tithonian > Sobral Unit
    Europe > Portugal > Lourinhã Municipality > Peralta, near Atalaia
    MIGM 4798, 4801–10, 4938, 4944, 4950, 4952, 4958, 4964–66, 4981–82, 4985, 
8793–95, 8807: Individual elements of a partial skeleton comprising 2 
anterior cervicals, 1 mid-dorsal, 2 neural arches, 3 anterior caudal centra, 
series of 18 caudals, 12 chevrons, ribs (one of which was originally 
identified as a metacarpal II), scapula?, distal epiphysis, 2 humeri, 
proximal left ulna & radius, partial left ilium, ischium & pubis, left tibia, 
proximal right fibula, and right astragalus, originally part of the type 
series for Brachiosaurus atalaiensis
    Hypodigm APK:0/35: Isolated vertebrae from five Portuguese localities, 
originally part of the type series of Brachiosaurus atalaiensis, in addition 
to lectotype partial skeleton

These are the relevant citations:

Christiansen, Per & Bonde, Niels, 2003. "The first dinosaur from Denmark," 
Neues Jahrbuch der Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 227(2): 287–299 
[February 2003].

Bonde, Niels & Christiansen, Per, 2003. "New dinosaurs from Denmark," Comptes 
Rendus Palevol 2, Systematic Paleontology: 13–26.

Telles Antunes, Miguel & Mateus, Octávio, 2003. "Dinosaurs of Portugal," 
Comptes Rendus Palevol 2, Systematic Paleontology: 77–95.

When I entered these names into the Dinosaur Genera List, the latter two 
articles were already on the Internet, so I had to make an awkward notation 
for the authorship of Dromaeosauroides that made it appear as if the second 
paper had been published before the first (which contains the actual 
description of Dromaeosauroides). This I subsequently corrected once I 
received a copy of the first paper, which I realized certainly appeared in 
print before the second.

As usual, additions and corrections to The Dinosaur Catalogue entries are 
most welcome.