Possible Tyrannosaurid from South America?

["Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@cox.net>]

Well, I'm finally getting caught up with inputting 2001/2002 papers and as I
was going through the 2001 Ameghiniana abstract volume there's a paper by
Coria, Currie, Ebert, Garrido and Koppelhus (Nuevos verbrados fosiles del
Cretacico Superior de Neuquen).

As far as I can tell they're describing a small coelurosaur from the
Portezuelo Formation, Late Cretaceous. The sentence reads as...El ejemplar
es un individuo juvenil que exhihbe apomorfias de Coelurosaria, tales como
pleurocelos dorsales y sacros, pubis proyectado verticalmente e isquiones
reducidos, El tamano del especimen es comparable con el conocido para los
tyrannosauridos del Hemisfrio Norte.

I take it they think its a tyrannosaurid. Not surprising to me. It's only a
matter of time before an Abelisaurid (or even a spinosaurid) from Hemisfrio
Norte is found...

Tracy L. Ford
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