Re: Afrovenator abakensis

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-10 00:13:50 EST, jpoling@infinet.com (Jeff Poling)
writes:

>Where is spinosaurus placed these days?

Nowhere--the type and only known specimen was destroyed during World War
II...

oh--you mean, Where is it CLASSIFIED(!)?   :-D

Sereno et al. in the _Afrovenator_ paper make Spinosauridae and Torvosauridae
sister groups within the superfamily Spinosauroidea (only they called it
Torvosauroidea), itself along with _Afrovenator_ a sister group to
Neotetanurae within Tetanurae. (Neotetanurae is everything in Tetanurae
except _Afro_ + Spinosauroidea.)

Bascially not bad, as far as I'm concerned, except that I don't think
Torvosauridae and Spinosauridae are particularly closely related.