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RE: help?



> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> david van zant
>
> i found this skull and skeleton
>
> http://www.dinopress.com/vol2/vol2_J/vol2-P1.html
>
> can someone tell me to which dinosaur belongs?

This is Dan Chure's yet-to-be-named new species of Allosaurus.  The specimen
used to be called "the headless wonder" until the skull was find by the
ingenious use of radioactive probing.

The monograph describing this specimen is in press, and will be a Must Have
book for theropod osteology.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
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