RE:Giganotosaurus

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@infinet.com>]

At 09:38 PM 1/7/96 -0500, MacVinnie wrote:
>me again...
>sorry to bother anyone, but here in my hand I am holding an article from our 
>local paper.  It shows a picture of a sauropod with very few bones.  
>Underneath this picture in italics is the name Giganotosaurus carolinii.  
>I've missed something here.  Can anyone send me some information regarding 
>this critter?  Most of my information comes from a local university, but as 
>I said before Ontario is not known for it's dinosaur knowledge!  

   Many people, including reporters (and myself, until I saw it discussed
here), read Giganotosaurus as GiganTOsaurus.  Gigantosaurus is, indeed, a
junior synonym of a sauropod (don't know which).  That may be the
explanation behind the picture of a sauropod.

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