Re: Ten Ton Carnivore

[Waylon Rowley <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>]

--- Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> You want chain-yanking? In Grady's 1993 book on the
> Canada-China Dinosaur 
> Project, he notes a Chinese theropod named
> Kelmayisaurus gigantus that is 
> supposed to have a vertebral column about 22 meters
> long. I've heard nothing 
> further about this species, and when I asked Dale
> Russell about it -- because 
> it was his notebook that Grady supposedly noted the
> species in -- he hadn't 
> heard of it either(!).

   I read about that on the internet years ago. Maybe
another Bruhathkayosaurus-like misinterpretation of a
sauropod axial skeleton?
   How about the tooth that Lapparent and Zbyszewski
(1957) reported (referred to _Erectopus superbus_?)
that's said to have a basal diameter of 7.75 inches?
That sounds impossibly huge. Is this just a typo in
the text?

Cheers,
Waylon Rowley

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

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