SPINOSAURS FOR SALE

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

Re: _Spinosaurus_ vertebrae for sale, Chris Collinson 
wrote...

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There seems to be an lot of Spinosaurid material showing 
up at fossil shows of late. Including a couple of highspined 
vertebrae.

http://www.dino-pantheon.com/timf2003/stoneage050.jpg
http://www.dino-pantheon.com/timf2003/stoneage020.jpg
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Dale Russell once told me he'd seen tall-spined spinosaur 
vertebrae for sale in Morocco. He suspected that they 
belonged to _Spinosaurus maroccanus_ (at the time there 
was some suggestion that _S. maroccanus_ might not have 
tall neural spines, which is why this issue came up).

One of the issues of _Dino Press_ features a nice photo of a 
partial spinosaur skull for sale at a mineral show (possibly 
Tucson). I can't remember if it's a dentary or premax and 
partial maxilla, but whatever it is, it has big teeth.

-- 
Darren Naish
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL

email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
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