RE: JP3-Spinosaurus]]

["Jack Conrad" <conradjack@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

> In an online article however, that small claw has been attributed to
> Spinosaurus:
> Figure 4: Enlarged thumb claw of Suchomimus,along with the thumb claws of
> Baryonyx and Spinosaurus.
> www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/news/resnews/palaeo/Report5/news5.html

I've got all three claws presented in the article here.  They are manual 
unguals for digits I, II, and III of _Suchomimus_...  I don't know how the 
article came to say that they're from three different animals.

> the name to the dinosaur, I guess, Cristatusaurus won't be a valid

Mickey Mortimer has already commented that _Cristatusaurus_ was mentioned in 
the _Suchomimus_ paper.  I agree with Sereno that it is non-diagnostic and 
does not warrant a new name.  The larger question of _Suchomimus_ and 
_Baronyx_...  I agree that we need more complete material, mainly from the 
latter.

Jack
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