Re: Lost Photos of Spinosaurus

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Simon M. Clabby (dinowight@yahoo.co.uk) wrote:

<Looking at that lower jaw, I'm surprised we were subjected to years of
stumpy-headed Spinosaurus restorations...>

  Such is the perfection of hindsight. We didn't have a decent skull for
context until the late 1980's and thenm mid-1990's. Prior to these, we had
maybe the "similar" *Dilophosaurus*, which has a "stumpy" looking snout in some
respects.

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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