Re: SERENO'S VERY LARGE THEROPOD

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-30 11:16:44 EST, dwn194@soton.ac.uk (D.W.Naish)
writes:

>I have a copy of a photo published in one of our newspapers in ?nov of last
>year, and I think it might be of Sereno's new, very big theropod. It shows
>just
>a skull, resting on a thick kind of mat, and Sereno is lying down to look
>into
>its mouth, kind of smiling as he knows it's a such a un-subtle publicity
>shot.
>The skull is very big, about 5 ft long, very dark in colour. Until yesterday
>I
>assumed it was _Afrovenator_, but George's comments made me think otherwise.
>As
>yet, I haven't had time to compare this skull with that of _Afrovenator_.
>From
>memory, though, the one in the photo appears much deeper.

That's the big one, no doubt.

>Doug Henderson has painted _Afrovenator_ with a _Ceratosaurus_-style
vertical
>preorbital hornlet. I see no suggestion of such on _Afrovenator_'s skull.
>
>

There's been a lot of plaster added to the mounted _Afrovenator_ skeleton...