The Dinosaur That Annoyed Paleontologists | Irritator challengeri | Prehistory in the Dark

They bother people a lot.

"Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 110 million years ago. It is known from a nearly complete skull found in the Romualdo Formation of the Araripe Basin. Fossil dealers had acquired this skull and sold it to the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. In 1996, the specimen became the holotype of the type species Irritator challengeri. The genus name comes from the word "irritation", reflecting the feelings of paleontologists who found the skull had been heavily damaged and altered by the collectors. The species name is a homage to the fictional character Professor Challenger from Arthur Conan Doyle's novels."

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[merafirewing]

I guess that dinosaur is a very nasty troll.

[joshuaW]

No wonder they called it Irritator.
Also how is there only one comment prior to me commenting this?

[dagoodboy]

Im an avid fossil collector. And ive found over 100 difforent kinds of fossils. Mostly invertibrates which most scintists dont care about. But ive also found a few vertibrates too.
Who would i talk to about that? I have no idea who i should contact.