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Acrocanthosaurus
> Acrocanthosaurus atokansis
(MOU 8-0-S8 or OMNH 10147) (11.7 m; 2.5 tons) two dorsal
centra, four dorsal neural spines, eight posterior dorsal ribs,
first caudal vertebra, second caudal vertebra (128 mm), third caudal
vertebra (138 mm), fourth caudal vertebra (140 mm), ninth caudal
vertebra (149 mm), tenth caudal vertebra (146 mm), eleventh caudal
vertebra (141 mm), twelfth caudal vertebra (140 mm), eighteenth
caudal vertebra, nineteenth caudal vertebra (131 mm), twentieth
caudal vertebra (134 mm), twenty-first caudal vertebra (135 mm),
twenty-second caudal vertebra, twenty-third caudal vertebra (124
mm), proximal chevron, pubes, proximal femur (~950 mm), fragmentary
tibia (~958 mm), metatarsal II (416 mm), metatarsal III (445 mm),
phalanx III-1 (145 mm) (Stovall and Langston 1950) (NCSM 14345)
(11.5 m; 2.4 tons) skull (1.23 m), mandible (1.315 m), cervical rib,
several dorsal ribs, gastralia, fourteen caudal vertebrae, six
chevrons, about ten partial vertebrae, scapulocoracoid (1.18 m),
humerus (370 mm), radius (220 mm), ulna (255 mm), ulnare, radiale,
distal carpal 1+2, metacarpal I (62 mm), phalanx I-1 (111 mm),
metacarpal II (116 mm), phalanx II-1 (101 mm), phalanx II-2 (103
mm), manual ungual II, metacarpal III (89 mm), phalanx III-1 (50
mm), phalanx III-2 (42 mm), phalanx III-3 (60 mm), manual ungual
III, partial femur (~1.28 m), incomplete tibia (960 mm), partial
astragalus, calcaneum, metatarsal I (111 mm), phalanx I-1 (70 mm),
pedal ungual I, metatarsal II (410 mm), phalanx II-1 (55 mm),
phalanx II-2 (122 mm), proximal metatarsal III (~440 mm), phalanx
III-1 (160 mm), phalanx III-2 (115 mm), proximal metatarsal IV,
phalanx IV-1 (85 mm), phalanx IV-2 (70 mm), phalanx IV-3 (58 mm),
metatarsal V (200 mm) (OMNH 10168) vertebral fragments, ischium,
femur Both the paratype and new incomplete skeleton are comparable
in size. [M.Mortimer]
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