Re: Is this Irritator?

[christopher robert noto <crnoto@midway.uchicago.edu>]

Well, y'know it looks a heck of a lot like Suchomimus tenerensis, with
perhaps slightly shorter jaws (but that could be a result of the angle of
the picture).  I'm not sure really, but from all the reconstructions of
Irritator and Angaturama that I've seen, they look smaller and more
lightly built than this one.  Any more comments form the peanut gallery?

Chris

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Tim Williams wrote:

> 
> I spotted this this morning...
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/02/html/snapshot1.html
> 
> It's a beautiful reconstruction of a (big) spinosaur skull with the byline: 
> "Scientists reconstructed this model of a dinosaur head from part of the 
> cranium and teeth, discovered in north-east Brazil."  Unfortunately no 
> further info was provided.
> 
> The only Brazilian spinosaurs I know of are _Irritator_ and _Angaturama_, 
> which I gather (from past postings) are now considered one and the same 
> dinosaur.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
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