RE: CARCHARODONTOSAURS

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> darren.naish@port.ac.uk
>
> 3) There is supposed to be a _Giganotosaurus_ specimen bigger than
> the type. It is an incomplete lower jaw found in the ?early 1900s
> and, according to a presentation given a few years ago by Rudolfo
> Coria, is something like 10% bigger than the lower jaw of the type
> specimen. Does anyone know any more about this specimen? Was it ever
> published?

This specimen is illustrated (fig. 11) and briefly mentioned in:
Calvo, J.O. 1999.  Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Lake Ezequiel
Ramos Mexia area, Neuquen-Patagonia, Argentina.  pp. 13-45 IN Y. Tomida,
T.H. Rich & P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan
Dinosaur Symposium.  National Science Museum (Tokyo) Monographs 15.

and is described in more detail in a short report in the Gaia theropod
volume (in press).

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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