RE: The Wild and Wacky *Carnotaurus*

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Richard W Travsky
>
> How many carnotaurs specimens are known? Can gender be determined,
> and is there a correlation between the horns and gender?
>

Number of described _Carnotaurus_ specimens = 1.

Hard to get a correlation off of that... :-)

Also, sex (gender is a human pyschosocial construct; sex is a biological
phenomenon) cannot be adequate determined for most dinosaur fossils, so one
of the two variables in said correlation can't be adequately evaluated.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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