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[dinosaur] RE {dinosaur] IGNORING A DEINODONT



The original material discovered, was believed at the time to belong to a new type of ceratopsid. The genotype (Amer. Mus. Cope Coll. 3982) of Manospondylus originally consisted of two dorsal vertebrae, which Cope recorded verbally to Hatcher as from South Dakota. Of these original two dorsal vertebra one was figured by Hatcher and correctly referred to the Theropoda. Unfortunately, the remaining vertebra has been misplaced in or lost from the American Museum collections. It most nearly resembles in size and other characters the posterior cervical or first dorsal of Tyrannosaurus rex (Amer. Mus. 5866). This type is so incomplete and so imperfectly preserved that the genus and species which were founded upon it are regarded as indeterminate.

Reference: 

Third  study of Tyrannosaurus


... Last week, it excavated about 10 percent of a fossil on a ranch in Perkins County, the same general area where paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope made his 1892 discovery...Larson suspects the newly discovered bones, including ribs, vertebrae, the jaw and parts of the skull, are part of the same animal Cope found. With a fuller complement of bones on hand, Larson believes the terrifying T. rex could become Manospondylus gigas. The fossil already has been nicknamed ``E.D. Cope.''

Reference:

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Would a Tyrannosaurus rex by any other name sound as scary? By STEVEN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer / Posted on Jun 20, 2000, 4:20 PM / Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota


(AMNH 3982; holotype ofManospondylus gigas) tenth cervical centrum (90 mm), additional cervical centrum (lost) (Cope, 1982)

(BHI 6248; nicknamed "E. D. Cope") maxilla, ectopterygoid, dentary, angular, cranial elements, vertebrae, ribs (Larson, 2008a)


References:

Cope, 1892. Fourth note on the Dinosauria of the Laramie. American Naturalist. 26, 756-758.

Larson, 2008a. One hundred years of Tyrannosaurus rex: The skeletons. In Larson and Carpenter (eds.).Tyrannosaurus rex: The Tyrant King. Indiana University Press. 0-55