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Megalosaurus bucklandii

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Subject: Megalosaurus bucklandii
From: pharrinj@PLU.edu
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:00:46 -0500
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   What is the current opinion on the classification of _Megalosaurus 
bucklandii_.  I know Greg Paul related it to _Torvosaurus_ and 
_Poekilopleuron_; but as I was looking through _The Dinosauria_, I 
noticed that the type material consists only of a dentary.  How sure are 
we that the referred postcranial material belongs to _M. bucklandii_?  Is 
it possible that the postcranial material belongs instead to a 
torvosaurid or eustreptospondylid, and that _Megalosaurus_ itself is neither?

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