Talk:Palaeosaurus

message: remowed the dino-stub template because i could not find any recent source supporting it is a dinosaur. Especially when it comes from the permian. Why was it included to the List of Dinosaurs?? --Dudo2 17:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

message: This page needs a taxobox. Paleosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1840 is the correct name for the reptile that  was going to be named Palaeosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1840. George Olshevsky (pers. comm., Apr. 26, 2000 ) demonstrated Palaeosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1836 to be a nomen nudum for Paleosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1840. Palaeosauriscus  Kuhn, 1959 is therefore a junior synonym of Paleosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1840. Therefore, Palaeosaurus is a nomen nudum for Paleosaurus Riley & Stutchbury, 1840. The type species is Paleosaurus platyodon Riley & Stutchbury, 1840, with the other species being P. cylindrodon Riley & Stutchbury, 1840, P. stricklandi Davis, 1881.
Benton, MJ, L Juul, GW Storrs, & PM Galton (2000), Anatomy and systematics of the prosauropod dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus from the Upper Triassic of Southwest England. J. Vert. Paleontol. 20: 77-108.
Palaeosaurus Fitzinger, 1840 is actually a synonym of Sphenosaurus von Meyer, 1847 (George Olshevsky, pers. comm. Aug. 10, 2002, http://dml.cmnh.org/2002Aug/msg00273.html). The taxonomic  history of Sphenosaurus is shown here:
Sphenosaurus von Meyer, 1847*
    = Palaeosaurus Fitzinger, 1840/Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1833
S. sternbergii (Fitzinger, 1840) von Meyer, 1847
    = Palaeosaurus sternbergii Fitzinger, 1840
    = Palaeosauriscus sternbergii (Fitzinger, 1840) Olshevsky, 1991
    = Paleosaurus sternbergii (Fitzinger, 1840) Olshevsky, 2000
    = Sclerosaurus sternbergii (Fitzinger, 1840) von Huene, 1902
Is Palaeosaurus fraserianus a dinosaur or a phytosaur?
For the reasons given above, update the Paleosaurus  page immediately. 72.194.116.63 20:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy of Paleosaurus 

message: Clepsysaurus redirects here, but isn't mentioned a single time. Someone address this, please. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  05:21, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Er...well, I tried Googling it but every single site I found says it's either a reptile (and nothing else) or the whole thing is literally cut-and-pasted from...well, from this very page. I'll try some more and see what comes up. Crimsonraptor | (Contact me) Dumpster dive if you must 13:57, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Clepsysaurus'' 

message: *Oppose As it stands the name "Palaeosauriscus" is an invalid genus.  However the three species that had been assigned to it over the years were placed into three different genera, not all into Palaeosaurus, and "Palaeosauriscus" is not considered a synonym.--Kevmin § 00:15, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  February 2014 merge proposal 

message: Article says:
Riley and Stutchbury did not mean to assign these species to Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire's genus ...
Is this the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire? - and should we therefore link to that article?
-- 189.122.51.140 (talk) 19:01, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire" = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]]?