RE:Giganotosaurus

[pharrinj@PLU.edu]

On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Jeff Poling wrote:

> At 09:38 PM 1/7/96 -0500, MacVinnie wrote:
> >me again...
> >sorry to bother anyone, but here in my hand I am holding an article from our 
> >local paper.  It shows a picture of a sauropod with very few bones.  
> >Underneath this picture in italics is the name Giganotosaurus carolinii.  
> >I've missed something here.  Can anyone send me some information regarding 
> >this critter?  Most of my information comes from a local university, but as 
> >I said before Ontario is not known for it's dinosaur knowledge!  
> 
>    Many people, including reporters (and myself, until I saw it discussed
> here), read Giganotosaurus as GiganTOsaurus.  Gigantosaurus is, indeed, a
> junior synonym of a sauropod (don't know which).  That may be the
> explanation behind the picture of a sauropod.
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Right.  _Gigantosaurus_ was a poorly-defined (?African) sauropod genus, 
whose members are now for the most part split between _Janenschia_ and 
_Malawisaurus_.