Re: Giganotosaurus Carolinii

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

>If you have any information regarding the giganotosaurus, Please forward
>what's available and/or where this information is available (hopefully on 
>the internet).

Giganotosaurus was published in _Nature_ last fall: hopefully someone will
post the citation before I can find it.  The authors are R. Coria and L.
Salgado.

You should be warned, though, that Giganotosaurus is fairly fragmentary: it
is not known from a complete skeleton.

Also, the formation it is from, the Rio Limay Formation, has not yet yielded
the numbers of other fossils that long-studied units like the Morrison, the
Judith River, or the Chinle have.  We do not yet know much about the local
flora and fauna with which Giganotosaurus lived.

Hope this helps.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Email:Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
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