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Re: Shuvosaurus, first impressions



Jaime A. Headden wrote:

Rauhut has a paper on it arguing that 1) Chatterjee is not correct in his interpretation, 2) that the skull belongs to a dinosaur, not a non-dinosaurian archosaur, and 3) that the skull is consistent with basal theropod dinosaurs (and is probably a ceratosaur). For example, it lacks a postfrontal.

Yep, Rauhut makes some really good points regarding _Shuvosaurus inexpectatus_. From memory (and maybe this is from Rauhut's work, but I'm not sure) there is a possibility that _Shuvosaurus_ and _Gojirasaurus_ are the same theropod. OK, so _Shuvosaurus_ was toothless, and _Gojirasaurus_ has a trenchant tooth referred to it. But the tooth might come from a different animal (like a scavenger). Also, a _Shuvosaurus_-like premaxilla (larger than the type) has been reported from the same quarry that yielded _Gojirasaurus_, although I can't recall the reference. According to this same report, the _Shuvosaurus_ type is probably juvenile.


Cheers

Tim