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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2013 19:13:28 GMT 5
 Another one of those alledged "4-5 meter dinocephalians" is not that large at all, but still quite massive. I'll leave it to you guys to figure out the volume. |
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Post by blaze on Feb 13, 2014 12:41:50 GMT 5
The Titanophoneus in the previous page, it measures ~3.7m in axial length but 2.1m of that is just the tail, the skull is only 43cm long though, if the skull is really 80cm long as is claimed everywhere on the internet, then it'll be 3m in head-body length and 6.9m long with that tail, even assuming a tail just double the head body length will result in a head body length of 6m, so, I think the 80cm long skull is false.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 15:25:14 GMT 5
The Titanophoneus in the previous page, it measures ~3.7m in axial length but 2.1m of that is just the tail, the skull is only 43cm long though, if the skull is really 80cm long as is claimed everywhere on the internet, then it'll be 3m in head-body length and 6.9m long with that tail, even assuming a tail just double the head body length will result in a head body length of 6m, so, I think the 80cm long skull is false. That would also mean that the ~80.5-centimeter Anteosaurus skull(which is actually A. major, not A. magnificus) would belong to a roughly ~7-meter long creature if we base it on Titanophoneus. That would make it the longest known nonmammalian therapsid. A. magnificus, with it's ~66-centimeter skull, would end up at ~5.68 meters in total axial length. Finally, a dinocephalian which actually ended up at the length range the interwebs give it! |
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Post by blaze on Feb 13, 2014 16:23:33 GMT 5
Not so fast, that depends entirely if that tail length is correct, it probably isn't, this is what was found of the holotype of Titanophoneus. btw A. major is a junior synonym of A. magnificus. |
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