Re: RAJASAURUS

["fam jansma" <fam.jansma@tiscali.nl>]

> There are some VERY robust limb bones from the Lameta Formation described
by
> Huene and Matley, and more recently illustrated in Chure's thesis.  They
may
> belong to Rajasaurus.

A femur and fibula are preserved in the material, as well as two partial
ilia, so these might just prove to be very important in the study of Lameta
abelisaurids. The bones are from all over the skeleton, so when published,
we all should have a good idea of what this animal looked like, much better
than Majungatholus for example.

> I wonder if some of the Majungatholus-like snout elements described as
> Indosuchus (Chatterjee, 1978; Sampson et al., 1996) are really Rajasaurus.

And figured by Chure... One of the maxillae does look similair to the one
reconstructed for Rajasaurus and basal Carnotaurines in general (Aucasaurus,
unnamed maxilla described in JVP)

> This is also interesting because Caranno et al. (2002) (tentatively)
> synonymized Lametasaurus, Indosaurus and Indosuchus.

Uhuh, wonder what his evidence is :-)