Re: The dinosaur papers - now available

["Brad McFeeters" <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>]

> (1) It was my understanding that the "dinosaur bone" in question (distal 
> femur of a megalosaur?) was regarded by Mr Plot not as a "leg bone", but 
> the petrified remains of another part of the human anatomy.  (So little 
> wonder that Mr Plot thought this extinct giant to be a man - a BIG man.)

That was R. Brookes in 1763. 
(http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/Namelist/Tabs/S042.htm)

Does the specimen really show any diagnostic features of megalosaurs, or is 
this simply a relict of every big Jurassic theropod being referred to them?

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