Re: Szechuanosaurus

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-05 13:55:52 EST, pharrinj@PLU.edu writes:

>Also, has anyone renamed the weird-looking "_Albertosaurus_" yet?  I mean 
>the one with the low, rectangular orbital horn, big teeth, shallow jaw, 
>and rectangular skull, represented by several good specimens (I don't 
>have the designations with me, but if I can get my hands on my copy of 
>_PDW_...).  To me it looks less similar to the type of _A. 
>libratus_ than does _Daspletosaurus_ or _Dinotyrannus_, so it needs a new 
>generic title (and certainly a new trivial name; no way is it _A.
libratus_).
>
>

Actually, this morph ("big-toothed gorgo" as Bakker calls it) has much in
common with the type specimen of _Gorgosaurus libratus_, whose skull is
mashed but shows similar large maxillary teeth. The thing is, no way is
_Gorgosaurus_ referable to _Albertosaurus_. (At least one worker thinks
_Albertosaurus_ is a _nomen dubium_, by the way.)