Ceratosaurus roechlingi Janensch, 1925
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004691063_015 |
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Guilherme |
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Ceratosaurus roechlingi Janensch, 1925 |
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Ceratosaurus roechlingi Janensch, 1925
The genus name Ceratosaurus is derived from the Greek Κέρας / Κέρατος (kéras / kératos) and σαῦρος / saúros and means “horn lizard.” It references the striking horns located on the skull, back and tail of the dinosaur, which was a carnivorous biped.
Janensch dedicated the specific name to “the memory of a man of great merit, a sponsor of the Tendaguru Expedition, Privy Commercial Councilor Aug. Röchling.” 87 Karl August Röchling, a mining magnate from the town of Völklingen in the Rhineland, was one of the German Empire’s foremost patrons of the arts and sciences. 88 He was one of the largest individual sponsors of the German Tendaguru Expedition, having made several donations totaling 12,000 marks. 89
A reexamination of the type specimen for C. roechlingi failed to reveal any species-specific characteristics, and as a result, this specific name is also considered a nomen dubium. 90
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