Which was bigger?

[tlford@ix.netcom.com (Tracy Ford)]

>
>      "Discovery News" a few weeks ago featured a blurb on Giganotosaurus
>and Charcarodontosaurus, in which measuments of AMNH 5027 and the
>Chacharodontosaurus and Giganotosaurus RECONSTRUCTIONS placed T. rex in
>third place.  The Giganotosaurus RECONSTRUCTION measured about 6"1',
>which, if I am not mistaken, isn't much larger then Sue.  And if the
>reconstruction is really too large....  It doesn't really matter.  The 
>sample size is mediocre for T.rex and atrocious for the other two.  Like
>the American supersauropod debate, this has seemingly dissolved into
>another case of "mine's bigger then yours."  All anyone can really say at
>this point is that Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Charcharodontosaurus
>are about the same size, and this seems to represent the (known) upper
>size range for theropods. 

Giganotosaurus is bigger, but not the one the skull us made of. There 
is a dentary, about 20 percent LARGER than the type specimen of 
Giganotosaurus!

Tracy