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A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia

Olshevsky, G. (1991)

Citation

Olshevsky, G. (1991). A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia. Mesozoic Meanderings 2: 1-196.

Names first published here

Cited by genera

  • Agathaumas

    Lists Agathaumas as a nomen dubium and queries its synonymy with Brachyceratops.

  • Apatodon

    Source of the referral to Allosaurus, listed without supporting argument.

  • Atlantosaurus

    Treats the genus as a nomen dubium and records the preoccupation of Titanosaurus Marsh, 1877 that Atlantosaurus replaces.

  • Aublysodon

    Records the species referred to the genus and the derivation of its type from the Deinodon material.

  • Bactrosaurus

    Reports the manuscript name Paraiguanodon incolapaludis, coined by Barnum Brown in the early 1930s on figures of Bactrosaurus johnsoni skeletons in the American Museum of Natural History.

  • Bradycneme

    Lists Bradycneme draculae as a nomen dubium.

  • Claorhynchus

    Lists the genus as a nomen dubium under Triceratops.

  • Coeluroides

    Listed Coeluroides largus as a nomen dubium.

  • Deinodon

    Records the species referred to the genus and the fate of the family name based on it.

  • Edmontonia

    Raised Edmontonia rugosidens to full genus, rarely followed since.

  • Embasaurus

    Suggested Embasaurus is a megalosaurid.

  • Eucercosaurus

    Lists the genus under Anoplosaurus.

  • Hypsirhophus

    Records the competing spellings of the name and treats Hypsirophus as the correct rendering.

  • Iguanodon

    Carries Therosaurus and Sphenospondylus in the Iguanodon synonymy.

  • Lufengosaurus

    Source of the Lufengocephalus synonymy, by way of Tawasaurus.

  • Megalosaurus

    Records Scrotum as a nomen oblitum.

  • Microcoelus

    Treats Microcoelus as nomen dubium and records Microsaurops Kuhn, 1963 as a junior objective synonym based on the spurious "Microsaurus" misspelling.

  • Monkonosaurus

    Lists Monkonosaurus Zhao, 1983 and M. lawulacus Zhao, 1986 as nomina nuda, made available by Dong (1990).

  • Nedoceratops

    Treats Diceratops as a valid genus distinct from Triceratops, following Forster's 1990 SVP work; predates the recognition of the Diceratops preoccupation and the Ukrainsky (2007) replacement.

  • Orthomerus

    Designates Orthomerus Seeley, 1883 as nomen dubium; lists Telmatosaurus dolloi as historical reassignment and ?O. weberi (later split into Riabininohadros) as second species.

  • Priconodon

    Listed Priconodon crassus as a nomen dubium.

  • Protognathosaurus

    Coins the replacement name Protognathosaurus for the preoccupied Protognathus.

  • Sauropelta

    Corrects the epithet to edwardsorum, keeping Ostrom's authority.

  • Tanystrosuchus

    Lists the genus as a nomen dubium, possibly Halticosaurus or Liliensternus. Says "Wild (1973)" removed it from synonymy with T. conspicuus, citing no source; Spiekman and Scheyer (2019) do not.

  • Telmatosaurus

    Treated Orthomerus as a separate valid though dubious name.

  • Valdoraptor

    Erects Valdoraptor as a new genus for Lydekker's Megalosaurus oweni, removing it from both Megalosaurus and von Huene's Altispinax; tentatively places it in Allosauridae pending further study.

Cited by clades

  • Chaoyangsauridae

    Lowered Chaoyoungosauroidea to the family Chaoyoungosauridae, noting that both names were nomina nuda.