The discovery team included scientists from France, Germany and the United States, as well as Georgia.
The discovery team has yet to find any skeletal bones associated with Toumai.
Saying the Discovery team did not have permission, the Israel Antiquities Authority ordered it resealed.
Jones, a member of the discovery team and the lead author of a report being published today in the journal Science.
"We like to think we're smart people," Dr. Margo H. Edwards, a marine geologist at the University of Hawaii who led the discovery team, said in an interview.
Besides Dr. Norell, the discovery team included Dr. Ji Qiang of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Dr. Gao Keqin of the American Museum and other Chinese colleagues.
Johan Bruyneel, the former manager of the Discovery team who took over Astana, said the team would focus on races other than the big tours.
The discovery team said in its report, "Whether high metabolic rates and advance hearts arose once or more than once among dinosaurs remains an open question".
This month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association sponsored an expedition to the Titanic that included Dr. Robert D. Ballard, who led the 1985 discovery team.
Given more time, though, the muscles could have developed and the feathers could have spread to the forearms, creating wings, the discovery team suggested.
At Pinnacle Point, the discovery team reported, they feasted on a variety of marine life, brown mussels, giant periwinkles and whelks.
