ACROCANTHOSAUR SKULL

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

Hey all. Someone (sorry, lost your name) wrote...

> Anyone know if the _Acrocanthosaurus_ known as Fran has yet been
> described? Has the skull been figured?

Tom replied...

> Neither the description, nor the figures that go with the 
> description have been published.  Yet.  Soon, though.

A figure of what I presume to be Fran's skull has indeed been 
published: it was a nearly 100% complete _Acrocanthosaurus_ skull 
with a notably _Carcharodontosaurus_like profile. A few teeth 
missing, but those in the rostral maxilla were especially elongate. 
Sorry, I am not going to tell you where it was published as I have 
been told that it was reproduced without permission and attention 
should not be drawn to it (hmm.. what's going on here?). Regardless, 
my attempt at drawing this skull, copied from this figure, is on one 
of the theropod pages on my web site. I don't know when, if ever, my 
web site will go live - there are so many complications.

One piece of good news: I am just about to submit my paper on tree 
climbing theropods.

I like eclipses.

DARREN NAISH 
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