paleonet Dinosaur Genera List Update #179

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In a message dated 11/19/01 8:34:46 AM EST, mike@tecc.co.uk writes:

<< It just occurred to me that you might like to rethink the subject lines of 
these emails: in calling them "DGL corrections" you could be construed as 
implying that there was something wrong with the previous version -- which 
there wasn't, of course, it just didn't have the new information because it 
hadn't been published.  I wonder whether these messages might be better 
described as "DGL amendment" or "DGL update"? >>

Consider it done, Mike. From now on, they're Dinosaur Genera List Updates.

From Alessandro Marisa, concerning the latest issue of Canadian Journal of 
Earth Sciences (December 2001), which contains no less than five papers on 
Asiatic dinosaurs:

Vickaryous M.K., Russell A.P., Currie P.J. & Zhao X.J 2001. "A new 
ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, 
with comments on ankylosaurian relationships," pp. 1767-1780.

The authors describe the new genus and species Gobisaurus domoculus known 
from a nearly complete skeleton that closely resembles Shamosaurus scutatus 
but distinguished by the unfused basipterygoid-pterygoid contact and elongate 
premaxillary processes of the vomers. The phylogenetic analysis placed 
Gobisaurus domoculus as the sister taxon to Shamosaurus scutatus.

This doesn't add a new name to the DGL but does change the status of 
Gobisaurus from nomen nudum to the following:

Gobisaurus Vickaryous, A. P. Russell, Currie & Zhao, 2001

This also changes the listing of Gobisaurus in the table of Asiatic dinosaurs 
in Mesozoic Meanderings #3 to the following:

Gobisaurus Vickaryous, A. P. Russell, Currie & Zhao, 2001
    = Gobisaurus Spinar, Currie & Sovak, 1994 [nomen nudum]
    G. domoculus Vickaryous, A. P. Russell, Currie & Zhao, 2001†
NOTE: This generic name first appeared in a children's dinosaur book in 1994.

I also made a few minor cosmetic changes to the DGL.

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