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Re: New dinosaur from South America



On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, TRUETT GARNER wrote:

> Interestingly , there seems to be no evidence for gigantic members of the
> Coelophysoidea , or " megasaurs , AFIK .

You mean "megalosaurs" as in basal tetanurans? _Torvosaurus_ grew to
about _Allosaurus_/_Acrocanthosaurus_ size. _Edmarka_ was also fairly
large.

Right about the coelophysoids, although, to be fair, some of them _were_
the largest terrestrial predators of their day.

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