Re: Re: Another Large Allosaurid

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

>I read on the internet that there was a very large allosaur, _Epanterias
>amplexus_ or something like that, that nearly reached the size of a female
>_Tyrannosaurus rex_!!

There is a lot of taxonomic confusion concerning the giant Morrison
allosaurid.  Dan Chure seems to have sorted this out, so the giant
allosaurid is now Saurophaganax maximus.
>


Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
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