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



On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, David Marjanovic
<david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> And doesn't _ops_ mean "face" rather than "eye"?

My understanding is that it means the part of the face above the mouth
(thus including the eyes, but also the nose and brows) -- there's no
direct translation in English.

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T. Michael Keesey
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