SERENO'S VERY LARGE THEROPOD

["D.W.Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

I have a copy of a photo published in one of our newspapers in ?nov of last
year, and I think it might be of Sereno's new, very big theropod. It shows just
a skull, resting on a thick kind of mat, and Sereno is lying down to look into
its mouth, kind of smiling as he knows it's a such a un-subtle publicity shot.
The skull is very big, about 5 ft long, very dark in colour. Until yesterday I
assumed it was _Afrovenator_, but George's comments made me think otherwise. As
yet, I haven't had time to compare this skull with that of _Afrovenator_. From
memory, though, the one in the photo appears much deeper.

Doug Henderson has painted _Afrovenator_ with a _Ceratosaurus_-style vertical
preorbital hornlet. I see no suggestion of such on _Afrovenator_'s skull.

"Tough on hypocrisy, tough on the causes of hypocrisy!" 
(Spit.Im., not JM of course!!)

DARREN NAISH