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Re: IRRITATOR AND ANGATURAMA



In a message dated 11/13/98 5:50:13 PM EST, Tetanurae writes:

<< Doesn't matter if the holotypes are sitting in different museums in
different countries, they are both from the same formation, and I believe sold
to rival paleontologists by private collectors.  Angaturama is known from a
snout, and Irritator is known from a snout-less head (which, remember, has
been altered by putty filler), so it IS possible that they did come from the
same animal. >>

Didn't say it was impossible, just incredibly unlikely. Also said stranger
things have happened, such as the piecing out of the type skeleton of
_Aliwalia rex_ to >three< different museums (London, Paris, Vienna) by the
collector, Alfred Brown.