Re: Texas tyrannosaurs (was Re: paleoart idea!)

[chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>]

It is, but the posterior process is broken off - if you reconstruct it,
it could be long enough. 

Tornillo Formation, by the way, was a proposed revision that would
include both Late K and Paleocene units.  Most people doing field work
in the area prefer to break it up.


chris


Timothy Williams wrote:
> 
> >The Javelina tyrannosaurid is
> >known from a maxilla and isolated teeth - the maxilla is certainly more
> >Tyrannosaurus/Tarbosaurus/Daspletosaurus-like than Albertosaurus-like,
> >but it could be a different form.
> 
> If this is the same maxilla from the Tornillo Formation of Texas (catalogued
> as TMM 4/436-1) that has sometimes been referred to _T. rex_, then the
> maxilla is too short to belong to _Tyrannosaurus_.  This is from Carpenter
> (1992).
> 
> Reference
> 
> Carpenter, K. (1992).  Tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria) of Asia and North
> America.  In: Mateer, N. and Chen, P. (Eds.).  Aspects of Nonmarine
> Cretaceous Geology.  China Ocean Press, p. 250-268.
> 
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