Comment on “An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages” by Jerzy Dzik and Tomasz Sulej

Abstract

Dzik and Sulej (2016) once more show that the Silesian Keuper bone beds are and will continue to be a source of astonishing vertebrate material. At the same time, they stress (2016: 805) that “the age and sedimentological interpretation of the strata continue to be subject to controversy,” but their résumé of competing ideas is incomplete and biased in some respects. First of all, Dzik and Sulej (2016) ignore the comprehensive polemical review of the Krasiejów site in Szulc et al. (2015b: 589‒595). This omitted paper includes not only “lithostratigraphic correlation with formations of such an age in Germany, as interpreted by these authors” (as claim Dzik and Sulej 2016: 807; a propos, is there an alternative, more reliable interpretation of the German formations?).