Scylla Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 New large meat eater out of Africa... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/sauroniops-pachytholus-t-_n_2088637.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 The type specimen is a piece of snarge... it's just a single chunk of bone from the skull. It probably shouldn't have been named. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 I thought that that was a skimpy bit of bone to extrapolate a 40 ft dino from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carcharodontosaurus Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 The type specimen is a piece of snarge... it's just a single chunk of bone from the skull. It probably shouldn't have been named. Well, the dome that was apparently above the eye does distinguish it from similar theropods, so at least we know it's not a junior symonym of Carcharodontosaurus. But I probably wouldn't have named it until I found the rest of the skull, just in case. This discovery also makes me wonder if some of the Carcharodontosaurus teeth on the market are actually Sauroniops teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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