RE: Possible Tyrannosaurid from South America?

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

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From: Nicholas Gardner [mailto:n_gardner637@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Possible Tyrannosaurid from South America?

Tracy L. Ford wrote:>
"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."

The specimen is a juvenile individual that exhibits apomorphies of
Coelurosaria, such as pleuroceolous dorsals and sacrals, a mesopubic pelvis
and a reduced ischium, The "tamano" of the specimen is comparable to the
tyrannosaurids of the Northern Hemisphere.<<

I'm not sure what "tamano" is.<<

Double checked and it wasn't my spelling this time :)

Thanks for the translation.


>>"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..."

Isn't Spinosaurus known from the Northern Hemisphere?  And Suchomimus, too?
And if you apply one of the two definitions of Spinosauridae, you could get
Baryonyx as well.<<

Nick Gardner
n_gardner637@yahoo.com

Yes, but I meant North America not the Northern Hemisphere, sorry for the
confusion and not being more explicit.

Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway Ca  92074