So Long Saurophaganax, You Messy Taxon!

An incredible, but outdated reconstruction of an allosaurid Saurophaganax with some Allosaurus that were likely what the allosaurid bones forming the genus belonged to. By ABelov2014.

So it turns out that part of what has been originally defined as a very big allosaur named "Saurophaganax" was probably just sauropod bones all along, not kidding. Though some of you might find this sad news, I find this very sensible and lean towards it. I’ve always found this idea of yet another giant carnivore species in Jurassic America’s plains very suspicious, it’s a little inconvenient to me in ecology. The Morrison Formation might be a very huge and age-spanning formation, but even a single member is supposedly packed with it and others. At least for now, I consider its big three predator genera to be Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus and Torvosaurus. The remaining allosaur parts of what’s been diagnosed for this genus could really conventionally just be large Allosaurus remains. Until whatever, that’s probably that for Saurophaganax.

Little edit here, I would like to admit that some have said to me that we might be jumping onto stuff too quickly and that it isn’t peer-reviewed yet, but I still do have suspicions among Saurophaganax, which is why I have been leaning to this idea.

An Apatosaurus by Durbed, part of what was thought to be the supposed Saurophaganax would’ve actually belonged to.