RE: African Paleo Croc included in my _Paralititan_ scene?

["Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@home.com>]

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Subject: African Paleo Croc included in my _Paralititan_ scene?

This is also for HP Josh Smith's team...

From: Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1619000/1619458.stm
>
> Sarchosuchus imperator specimens were first discovered in the Tnr Desert
> in Niger in 1964 but new finds in the Sahara have made it possible to form
> a clearer picture of the giants.

Well, I'm just drawing my _Paralititan_ scene.
Did _Sarchosuchus_ lived in the same epoch?
Did it live only by the rivers or also by the sea?
Sahara is large; could it be possible that someone find it in Egypt?

Thanks in advance - LJB.

Sure the type is from Egypt. This from my list of names (I went back to
Taquet 1976 and found several referred specimens that I missed).

Species: imperator De BROIN & TAQUET, 1966
Etymology:

Holotype: Musee National du Niger/Niamey.

Locality: Gadoufaoua, Sahara, Egypt.

Horizon: Elrhaz Formation, Cenomanian, Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Skull missing most of the anterior tip.

Referred material:

TAQUET, 1976

Number: Not given.

Material: Dorsal vertebrae.

BUFFETAUT & TAQUET, 1977

Number: Not given.

Tip of snout of a juvenile.

Anterior extremity of right dentary of an adult specimen.


TAQUET, 1976/LAPPARENT, 1947

Number: Not given.

Locality: Gourarat, Touat, Tidikelt region, Sahara, Algeria.

Horizon: Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Fragments of the skull, mandible, 2 vertebrae and osteoderms.

= Stomatosuchus inermis referred material LAVOCAT, 1948

Number: Not given.

Locality: Hamades, Continental Intercalaire, Morocco

Horizon: Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Teeth and osteoderms.

/LAPPARENT, 1951

Number: Not given.

Locality: Dahar, South Tunisia.

Horizon: Middle Cretaceous.

Material:

/LAPPARENT, 1953, 1960

Number: Not given.

Locality: Aoulef, Southern Algeria.

Horizon: Middle Cretaceous.

Material:

/FAURE, 1957

Number; Not given.

Locality: Elrhaz, Tefidet, Niger.

Horizon: Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Teeth and osteoderms.
And of course, the new material.
In response to Chris Brochu's comment on the coverage of the crocodile. You
expect the media to be able to discern different types of crocodilians? The
media who call Mammoth's dinosaurs? What is needed is a good website that
will cover the annoucments correctly, one in which will cover newly
published articles, one in which will...Well, I'm getting ahead of myself,
keep your eyes and ears open for the up and coming (as soon as I can set it
up with my brother to show me how to get it done right) dinohunter.info web
site!!! Duunn, Duunn, DUUNN!!!

Tracy L. Ford
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