Re: big meat-eaters (Epanterias)

["ekaterina amalitzkaya" <eamalitz@hotmail.com>]

Is Saurophaganax substantially different from Allosaurus to merit genushood?

Apart from the North American large theropods like Torvosaurus and 
Allosaurus I remember reading in the german works that an explorer of the 
Tendaguru beds- Jannesch found some really large femora, teeth and     I 
think pelvic fragments. These if scaled according to the Allosauroid or 
Afrovenator models could result in 12-13 meter theropods. Have these faunas 
been revisited by any of the paleontologists after Jannesch? So very large 
theropods were already common in the Jurassic only that there no more 
complete structures.


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