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Dryosaurus grandis[edit]

Coelosaurus affinis is actually a new combination by Matthew and Brown (1922) for Ornithomimus affinis Gilmore, 1920, a replacement name for Dryosaurus grandis Lull, 1911. Gilmore (1920) placed Dryosaurus grandis in the genus Ornithomimus, which rendered Lull's name secondarily preoccupied by Ornithomimus grandis Marsh, 1890 and necessitated the replacement name Ornithomimus affinis. However, the holotype of Ornithomimus grandis comes from the Eagle Sandstone of Montana and is presumed lost (Osborn 1916), while Smith and Galton (1990) could not identify the Arundel taxon beyond Theropoda indet. To be on the safe side, Dryosaurus grandis has not been considered congeneric with Ornithomimus since 1920 and is older than O. grandis Marsh, 1890, so Lull's name is not preoccupied and Gilmore's name becomes a junior objective synonym of Dryosaurus grandis.

C. W. Gilmore. 1920. Osteology of the carnivorous Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genera Antrodemus (Allosaurus) and Ceratosaurus. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 110:1-154

R. S. Lull. 1911. Systematic paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Maryland: Vertebrata. Maryland Geological Survey: Lower Cretaceous 183-211

W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385

Osborn, 1916. Skeletal adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 35(43), 733-771.

Smith and Galton, 1990. Osteology of Archaeornithomimus asiaticus (Upper Cretaceous, Iren Dabasu Formation, People's Republic of China). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 10(2), 255-265. 68.4.61.168 (talk) 02:31, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian[reply]