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Re: New Antarctic Theropod



        
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        >>From ernst@violet.berkeley.edu Wed May 11 10:16:52 1994
        > >
        > > I am curious about the crest on the skull of the new theropod found
        > > in the antarctic (I forget the name given to it).
        >
        >I think that must be Monolophosaurus.
        
        The new theropod is Cryolophosaurus ellioti, from the Early Jurassic of
        Antarctica.

I believe it is crysophosaur.  The article I read said that they coined the
name to translate as freezing crest lizard - meaning the scientists froze and
the dinosaur had a crest.

-Randy