RE: Sarcosuchus (IN ITALY)

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:48:52  
 Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia wrote:
>Caro Silvio,
><<Had come to my mind that in Venice (Italy) Natural History Museum,  along
>with  the mounted skeleton of Ouranosaurus there is a nearly complete
>skeleton (at least skull and many dermal plates) of a BIG crocodil(iform?)
>of Sarcosuchus size, labelled probably as Phobosuchus. It is written it
>becomes from the same site of Ouranosaurus. Do you know about this? I do
>not know if there is literature on it.>>
>
>Actually, it is labeled "Sarcosuchus imperator" and is figured in the book
>"Sulle orme dei dinosauri" (Erizzo Press), figs 26-28, where you can see
>the complete skull (and lower jaw)1.70 m long in the field, during
>preparation and in the exhibit. It was found in 1973, in the Gadoufaoua
>site of the Teneré zone of Sahara desert in Niger. By French and Italian
>searchers. Tracy Ford also underlined this in a previous message.

I may be completely wrong, but I remember a large 
crocodile/crocodiliform/something on display at the Natural History Museum in 
Paris.  Of course, when I visited I was operating on 30+ hours of non-sleep, so 
I may just be mixing up my facts.  Does anyone know about this possible 
specimen?  Based on Dr. Dalla Vecchia's above post, French and Italian teams 
discovered the material currently on display in Venice, so it is conceivable 
that perhaps a French team from the Museum may have collected the specimen that 
(I think) is on display.

Steve

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