In a dinosaur magazine some time ago (this was pre-2013), I had read an article that Phill Currie was excavating a new giant carcharodontosaurid in Resolute, Nunavut. Some things the article said about the animal were as follows:
-The specimen dates to the Santonian, 84 mya.
-Total length estimate of 13 meters.
-Mandible similar to Allosaurus fragilis.
-Vertebrae and upper skull bones more similar to Giganotosaurus.
-77.5 cm is the given measurement for the mandible (but maybe this is a typo and Currie meant 177.5 cm? The latter measurement is more coherent with the 13-meter estimate).
I have not been able to relocate this magazine since, and when I emailed Currie he said he could not remember. Has anyone read or heard about this, and if so do you know what the magazine is called/anything more it says?
Thanks and good day.
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