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Re: Antarctosaurus

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Subject: Re: Antarctosaurus
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:24:17 -0500
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Quoting Dino Rampage <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>:

> Just what the hell is Antarctosaurus?? Is it a titanosaur? A late-surviving 
> diplodocimorph? A dicraeosaur? It seems the only thing consistent with all 
> the restorations I have seen is that it is a sauropod.

The short answer, last I knew, is that it is likely a mix of titanosaurian and 
rebbachisaurid fossils.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

References:
- Antarctosaurus
  - From: "Dino Rampage" <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>

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