Re: Spinosaurine on NetLaputa website

[Waylon Rowley <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>]

Rob Gay wrote:
> Whelp, the first URL worked for me, and by scrolling
> over to the far right,
> I saw two illustrations of snouts. The lowermost
> being _Suchomimus_, and the
> upper one being _Angaturama_ (I assume). Indeed, the
> premax/max does
> resemble that of said photo...very curious.
> Peace,
> Rob

The snout in the NetLaputa pic is deeper (though this
may be due to the angle the pics were taken at) and
some of the smaller teeth in the Sereno diagram are
missing in the photo. I don't know if Sereno et. al.
reconstructed the dentition of _Angaturama_ for that
diagram, or if the holotype preserves those teeth. If
the latter is true we can rule out the possibility
that this specimen is a cast of _Angaturama_. I only
assumed that this thing is Spinosaurus maroccanus
because that's the only other spinosaurine (?) that
preserves the rostral portion of the skull. The size
of the specimen in the photo would indicate it didn't
come from a small animal, either. Maybe someone with
better resources could compare the two and answer HP
Chris Collinson's original question.

Cheers,
Waylon Rowley

"My train of thought has become a runaway caboose." 

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