Talk:Chasmatosuchus

Merger with Chasmatosaurus
Both The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals and the Paleobiology Database, the latter of which is edited by university professors, identify Chasmatosuchus as Chasmatosaurus, so these two articles should be merged as Chasmatosaurus. Jerkov 18:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you sure? I thought at least one species of Chasmatosaurus was found to be synonymous with Proterosuchus. Were the others referred to Chasmatosuchus? If not, both Chasmatosaurus and Chasmatosuchus are valid, though I imagine there's a larger taxonomic issue here somehere (isn't there always? ;) ).Dinoguy2 18:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know. If they're both valid there doesn't need to be a merger between these articles, right? I might have jumped to conclusions too soon after seeing the similar names (there are also a Hesperosuchus and a Hesperosaurus, which are indeed seperate creatures), but it's still kinda suspicious since they're both in the same family. Are there any sources favoring suchus over saurus?

EDIT- Just saw that there's also a Chasmatosuchus on Paleo DB. I think this means they are seperate genera; I'll remove the merger tag and add Chasmatosaurus to Proterosuchidae alongside Chasmatosuchus. Jerkov 18:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)