Re: Is this Irritator?

[João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@uol.com.br>]

The Brazilian newspapers shows this dinosaur but unfortunately they don't
explain well. I think it's Irritator/Angaturama but the description given
seems to me based on the Spinosaurus (13-m-long).
Joao S.Lopes
Rio de Janeiro
----- Original Message -----
From: christopher robert noto <crnoto@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Is this Irritator?


> 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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