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Altispinax
"High
Spined "
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Length
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Time,
Million Years Ago
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Place
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uncertain
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131
- 127
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England
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First
Named
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Discoverer
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Family
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1884
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Dames
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Theropoda
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The
name Altispinax
dunkleri was originally used to indicate remains
of a theropod with high vertebral spines however the material
for this species is merely teeth which can not confidently be
assigned to the same animal as any skeletal remains.
The
bones were then reassigned to a new species of Acrocanthosaurus,
another high-spined theropod called A. altispinax. Yet further
study has indicated that it could not be said to belong to Acrocanthosaurus
and has since been placed in a new genus known as Becklespinax
altispinax. Altispinax dunkleri is now a dubious species.
Remains:
Teeth
©
2002 Gavin Rymill
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