Entity:

Authorship

Original name, rank, combination & spelling

Welles, 1954. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 65: 595 ("n. sp."). ≡

Eponymous persons

J. (John) Wetherill: explorer Ref: Welles, 1954. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 65: 595 (footnote 4). ("of Kayenta, explorer, friend of scientists, and trusted trader and counselor to the Navaho, whose nephew, Milton, first told us of the specimen")

Variants

Incorrect spelling

†Megalosaurus wetherelli Nesbitt, 2011, orth. inval.

Ref: Welles, 1954. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 65: 595. [inferred]

Combinations

Current combination

†Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Welles, 1954)

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 56. [inferred]