Re: Is this Irritator?

["Marco Mendez" <spinosauroidea@onebox.com>]

I just saw this picture, it is rather interesting. I agree with Chris,
it looks more like a Suchomimis rather than its relative; Irritator/Angaturama.
 The skull is shaped more like Suchomimus, I believe this is so because
of the number of teeth in the reconstuction. If anyone takes a read at
the Irrittor/Angaturama paper, I believe it says that there's spacing
between the teeth. THis is also shown in the drawing done by Jack Conrad
of the Irritator skull.
  
Yes, the Irritator skull is more lightly built, also it does not have
that crest that Irritator was believed to have. 
All in all, its a very nice reconstruction, except the top part of the
skull is flat! not slightly curved.  

best dino wishes to all, 
-marco
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---- =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Sim=F5es_Lopes_Filho?= <jodan99@uol.com.br>
wrote:
> 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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