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I got the article today and was looking at the skull. It is in no way as
complete (as I knew I remembered correctly) from the SVP. The identification of
the maxilla looks wrong to me. I don’t think they have it right and it does not
in anyway ‘the smoking gun’ for the skulls of Titanosaurids (does anyone
remember Malawisaurus? That skull doesn’t look at al like Rapetosaurus’s).
No sauropod that I know of has a
maxilla that looks like Rapetosaurus’s. Could they have part of the premaxilla
(the ‘bar’)? I was looking at Huene & Mately and they have a maxilla from
India that does look like the back half of the maxilla. I think the front
fenestra is the naries and the second the ant-orbital fenestra. Which would
mean that the skull doesn’t look like a diplodocid. Tracy L. Ford P. O. Box 1171 Poway Ca
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