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RE: Dromaeosaur

> From: owner-vrtpaleo@usc.edu [mailto:owner-vrtpaleo@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> John Wood
>
> Dinocasts.com (http://www.dinocasts.com/catalog.asp) have good casts (and
> prices!). They have a casts of the Suchomimus skull. Does anyone
> knows more
> about this skull? Which specimen is it?

Undescribed specimen, and not Suchomimus but a different genus (unless it is
more reconstructed than it looks, it is a spinosaurine (like Spinosaurus and
Irritator) rather than a baryonychine (like Baryonyx and Suchomimus)).

I note with amusement that "Stegosauria" is used in place of "Ornithischia",
so that hadrosaurids and ceratopsians are now types of stegosaurs..

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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