RE: Sauroniops, new thick-skulled carcharodontosaurid theropod from Upper Cretaceous of Morocco

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

It means both "face" and "eye." For people wearing glasses, the use of -ops 
should be familiar; e.g., "myopia."

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  Jaime A. Headden
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  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:34:01 +0100
> From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Sauroniops, new thick-skulled carcharodontosaurid theropod from 
> Upper Cretaceous of Morocco
>
> >> Is this the same frontal published a few month ago by the same
> >> authors in this paper:
> >> http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20110043.pdf ? If
> >> so they rapidly changed their mind since they stated not to name a
> >> new taxon based upon the since frontal in the APP paper.
>
> AFAIK, that's explained in the paper. Short answer: new data.
>
> > Speaking of the Eye of Sauron... why is there an "i" in
> > _Sauroniops_? The name should surely be _Sauronops_.
>
> And doesn't _ops_ mean "face" rather than "eye"?