Re: "Megalosaurus" inexpectatus the carcharodontosaurid?

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/14/00 9:59:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com writes:

> Other
>  carcharodontosaurids such as Giganotosaurus carolini (Calenderos Member of
>  Rio Limay Formation, Argentina) and unnamed forms (Huincul Member of the 
Rio
>  Limay Formation, Argentina; Rio Colorado Formation, Argentina) are also
>  known from South America, though I am unaware of the presence of tooth
>  wrinkles in these species.

_Giganotosaurus_ shows wrinkles across the entire face of the tooth, as in 
_Carcharodontosaurus_ (Chure et al., 1999, 293); in the Brazilian specimen, 
the wrinkles are limited to the distal edge--the same is true of an isolated 
tooth from Chubut (reported in Vickers-Rich et al., 1999).

Nick Pharris

References:

Chure, Daniel J., Makoto Manabe, Masahiro Tanimoto, and Yukimitsu Tomida, 
1999.  "An Unusual Theropod Tooth from the Mifune Group (Late Cenomanian to 
Early Turonian), Kumamoto, Japan", in Tomida, Rich, and Vickers-Rich, eds., 
_Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium_.  National Science 
Museum (Tokyo) Monographs, No. 15, pp. 291-296.  (ISSN 1342-9574)

Vickers-Rich, Patricia, Thomas H. Rich, Daniel R. Lanus, Leaellyn S. V. Rich, 
and Raul Vacca, 1999.  "'Big Tooth' from the Early Cretaceous of Chubut 
Province, Patagonia: A Possible Carcharodontosaurid", in Tomida, Rich, and 
Vickers-Rich, eds., pp. 85-88.