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Spinosaurus is Not an Aquatic Dinosaur


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Interesting paper.   Paul Sereno et al. challenge the hypothesis that Spinosaurus was fully aquatic presented in Ibrahim et al. 2020b paper.

They also have a different skeletal reconstruction to support their position.

 

https://elifesciences.org/articles/80092

 

Spinosaurus and Suchomimus

 

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Differences between the two skeletal reconstructions

 

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Tom Holtz posted this about all the social media hype around Spinosaurid

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T Holts also tweeted it's not an aquatic dinosaur and Dr David Hone responded it never was.

 

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2 hours ago, Dino Dad 81 said:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/80092

 

I haven't had a chance to read yet, but I'm curious to see if finding Spinosaurus material in Niger means that Spinosaurus and Suchomimus overlapped.

Suchomimus is in the Elrhaz Fm Albian in age.  Teeth found were the northern part of Echkar Fm, Cenomanian in Age . 

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