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Bruhathkayosaurus

  • 24-12-2011 12:32pm
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    Galvasean
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    Is it an allosaur? Is it a sauropod? Is it a tree? Bruthathkayosaurus matleyi is one of the great mysteries in palaeontology. Whatever the case, we can never know now as it descends into the realm of the nomen dubium forever more.
    it appears that B. matleyi has suffered the same fate as its atlantosauroid rival for the record. In the comments at another SV-POW post about semi-apocryphal gigapods, Wedel reports that the type and only specimen of B. matleyi was at some point washed away in a flood. Any hope of verifying the stupefying claims about this species' size now seem to be lost. And unlike A. fragilimus, which was described and well-illustrated by a mostly reputable source with no obvious errors, the poor state of the B. matleyi description will forever doom this creature to the realm of dubious claims. After all, given the poor state of the description, it seems possible that a simple scale bar error or other mix-up could have tainted the data, and therefore all of our size estimates.
    http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/2011/12/bruhathkayosaurus-is-dead-again.html

    Speculative_Bruhathkayosaurus_by_Steveoc86.jpg
    Illustration by Steve O' Connor
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