Cette année devrait nous apporter, selon les rumeurs, quelques beaux nouveaux dinos: un Carcharodontosauridae (dont les restes se rapportant à huit individus ont été collectés en 1997-1998), un Pachycephalosauridae (ressemblant à Stygimoloch, peut-être celui découvert début 2005), un Sauropode, et un Oviraptoridae ...
Faut voir, attendons, tout ça ... vous connaissez les rumeurs ... en tout cas, je vous tiens au courant pour confirmer ou pas
Hello eragon, je suis un petit nouveau et bien que Lolo m'aie quelque peu devançé ( de quelques heures seulement) j'ai mis sur le forum dino et oiseaux (je m'e suis gouré d'endroit, mais je débute ) des info conçernant la prochaine publication du carcharodontosauridae et quelques mot sur la bête que je tiens dirrectement de philip curie et de Rodolfo Coria.
undescribed carcharodontosaurid (Coria and Currie, 1997)
Late Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous
Huincul Formation of Rio Limay Subgroup, Argentina
Material- (MUCPv coll.) (8 m; adult) maxillary tooth, surangular, dorsal vertebrae, dorsal ribs, caudal vertebra, manual ungual, acetabular region of ilium, pubes, femora, tibiae, fibula, metatarsal, several pedal phalanges
(MUCPv coll.) seven other individuals
Comments- This taxon was discovered in 1995, but only reported to Coria in 1997, when he and Currie examined the material. It was announced at that years Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, and described briefly in an abstract (Coria and Currie, 1997). At the time, only the remains of an 8 meter long specimen were known, and it was identified as an adult. The teeth are described as carcharodontosaurid-like, and the femur noted to share characters with Giganotosaurus (eg. dorsally projected head; ?deep sulcus?). Coria and Currie returned to the site in 1998 to discover the presence of at least six individuals, some of which Currie says could be larger than Giganotosaurus? holotype. The association of several individuals was suggested to be due to pack behavior. This was reported to the popular media in May 1999, and later described in another abstract (Eberth et al., 2000). Later (Eberth and McCrea, 2001), the minimum number of individuals was increased to eight. This paper finds the probable cause of death to be drought and notes the bones experienced at least two flooding events and were exposed and trampled over more than one season. However, they state several alternatives exist besides gregarious behavior to explain the find, including environmental stress and breeding. It was reported on the internet that a magazine had termed the taxon Giganotosaurus "argentine", but this has yet to be confirmed and would be a nomen nudum in any case. Currie and Coria are of the opinion it is a new genus, and though the description (sometimes rumored to be in Nature or Science) is often said to be nearly completed, it has yet to appear.
References- Coria and Currie, 1997. A new theropod from the Rio Limay Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17(3) 40A.
Eberth, Currie, Coria, Garrido and Zonneveld, 2000. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (3).
Eberth and Crea, 2001. Were large theropods gregarious? Jourtnal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 21(3) 46A-47A