Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs

Citation

Walker, A. D. (1964). Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248: 53-134. doi:10.1098/rstb.1964.0009

Names first published here

• Eustreptospondylus genus
• Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis species
• Metriacanthosaurus genus
• Metriacanthosaurus parkeri species

Cited by genera

• Eustreptospondylus

  Gives the holotype's locality as the "Summertown brick pit, Wolvercot, near Oxford".

• Lametasaurus

  Assigns the endoskeletal elements of the type series to carnosaurs and restricts the name Lametasaurus to the scutes.

• Metriacanthosaurus
• Orthogoniosaurus

  Considers Orthogoniosaurus indeterminable, being founded on an isolated tooth.

• Streptospondylus

  Refers the entire theropod material from Cuvier's series to the new species Eustreptospondylus divesensis (later moved to Piveteausaurus by Taquet 1977).