The authorship of Spinosauria is Olshevsky, 1991: comment on Rauhut et al. (2025)
Abstract
Rauhut et al. recently proposed the ‘new’ name Spinosauria for a clade to contain the subfamilies Spinosaurinae and Baryonychinae. Here, it is shown that a name with the same spelling was erected for a clade with the same content by Olshevsky, and thus the authorship should be attributed to him.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Linguistic and Cultural Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Historical Biology
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2142–2143
- Publication date
- 12 January 2026
- Language
- EN