Re: big meat-eaters (Epanterias)

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> Epanterias was that large allosaurid that Bakker described sometime in the 
> late 80's.

  No, _Epanterias_ was one of Marsh's names, based on a fragmentary caudal 
centrum from the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming.  You are 
thinking of Bakker's dubious taxon _Edmarka_, which is (according to Bakker) 
_not_ an allosauroid, but closer to _Megalosaurus_ (part of his 
"Megalosauridae").  AFAIK, most people other than Bakker consider this form, 
based largely on a jugal (although there is unpublished, attributed 
material), to be well within the range of intraspecific variation for 
_Torvosaurus_.

> I recall that he described it as possibly being larger than T. rex, and 
> being the last of its kind (the last allosaur).<

  Bakker's concept of Morrison stratigraphy is, to say the least, unique.

> Now, as with many thinks Bakker says, there was considerable objection to 
> this species, with some just considering it a really big Allosaurus.<

  Again, that should be "big _Torvosaurus.


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