Carnosaurs

["Tim Williams" <T.Williams@cclru.randwick.unsw.edu.au>]

Tom Holtz:
 
> >Pilots bitch about airplane movies.  Sailor gripe about nautical movies.
> Cops reject crime/hero movies.  The list goes on.

You should hear my dog's gripes about Lassie movies.  Phew!  Don't 
get her started!
 
> The support for a monophyletic "Carcharodontosauridae", however, was not as
> firm as before: it was present in some trees; in others, Giganotosaurus lay
> outside either an ((Acro + Carcharo) + Allosauridae) or an (Carcharo + (Acro
> + Allosauridae)) clade.

I believe that, after examination of the new skull, certain 
paleontologists have very strong views that _Acrocanthosaurus_ is NOT 
a carcharodontosaurid.

By the way, does anyone have a reference concerning the description 
of this new Acro skull?


Tim Williams

> 
> That's it for now.  Talk to you later,
> 
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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