RE: New theropod material from Cretaceous of Brazil

[Mickey Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

This seems to be the latest example of lying about describing the "first X from 
Y"...

"First Brazilian carcharodontosaurid"

and yet...

"Previous theropod records from the Bauru Basin comprise Abelisauridae and 
Tetanurae and in São Paulo state these have been represented by only a right 
premaxilla of an abelisaurid and isolated abelisaurid and carcharodontosaurid 
teeth."

The actual first carcharodontosaurid from Brazil was reported in 1998-

Kellner and Campos, 1998. Review of Cretaceous theropods 
  and sauropods from Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18(3), 55A.

Apparently "first carcharodontosaurid skull fragment from Brazil" didn't sound 
important enough.

Mickey Mortimer

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> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:14:26 -0700
> From: bcreisler@gmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: New theropod material from Cretaceous of Brazil
>
> From: Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
>
> A new online paper, but apparently no named new taxa (full text not seen yet):
>
> Rodrigo P. Fernandes de Azevedo, Felipe Medeiros Simbras, Miguel
> Rodrigues Furtado, Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro & Lílian Paglarelli
> Bergqvist (2012)
> First Brazilian carcharodontosaurid and other new theropod dinosaur
> fossils from the Campanian–Maastrichtian Presidente Prudente
> Formation, São Paulo State, southeastern Brazil
> Cretaceous Research (advance online publication)
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2012.06.004
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667112001176
>
>
> We report new theropod dinosaur material from the Presidente Prudente
> Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian), Bauru Group, in southwestern São
> Paulo state. The material comprises a fragment of right maxilla of
> Carcharodontosauridae, an anterior portion of a left ilium of
> Abelisauroidea and a proximal portion of a right fibula of a
> coelurosaurian. Previous theropod records from the Bauru Basin
> comprise Abelisauridae and Tetanurae and in São Paulo state these have
> been represented by only a right premaxilla of an abelisaurid and
> isolated abelisaurid and carcharodontosaurid teeth. The new material
> reported here represents the first theropod remains from the
> Presidente Prudente Formation, and includes the first abelisauroid and
> coelurosaurian postcranial remains from the Bauru Basin in São Paulo
> state and the first latest Cretaceous carcharodontosaurid known from
> non-dental remains anywhere.