R: Majungatholus

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>
A: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Data: martedì 31 agosto 1999 23.04
Oggetto: Re: Majungatholus


>>--- Timothy Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>> As you say, the skull fragment was thought to come
>> from the dome of a
>> pachycephalosaur, but new material from Madagascar
>> proves it comes from the
>> skull roof of a thick-headed abelisaurid theropod
>> related to _Carnotaurus_.

>I know this was the word on M., but has its close
>relationship with Carnotaurus been *established* yet?
>Is it even definitely an abelisaurid?  Last I recall,
>from the paper in (um, NATURE?), it was not.  But I
>may (dramatic music) be mistaken.


I say that the teeth of Majungatholus were relatively low crowned and
blade-like, typical of Abelisaurids, and the postcranial  shows a
combination of features from Abelisaurids and Ceratosaurs.

By
Alessandro Marisa
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