Post by blaze on Feb 16, 2014 7:44:45 GMT 5
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I updated the image and the link got broken or something, it's now fixed.
What matters is not the amount but the quality of the source, things like height in bipedal position are not mentioned in scientific papers, total length is rarely mentioned too, I only fond a single scientific publication mentioning total length, 5.4m for an skeleton with a 71cm long femur.
Weird, I found so many papers after I made the size chart and it wasn't until I found and download a thesis that I got measurements of bigger bones, bummer that I didn't found before the paper you shared, well the thesis in question is De Iuiis (1996), the largest humerus mentioned there is 78cm long as well as the largest femur, the paper you linked has two humerii slightly larger than this, and the specimen referred to M. gallardoi specifically, appears to be the largest reasonably complete skeleton, 79.5cm long humerus and 76.4m femur (total lengths), this measurements are ~22.5% larger than in the specimen I used to make my size chart, I have to rescale it again because I found some inconsistencies but, if a 71cm femur belongs to a 5.4m long individual, then a 76.4cm femur probably belongs to an individual approaching 6m long and maybe close to 4m tall, but this is max size, not average, based on the data on De Iuiis (1996), the specimen I originally used for my size chart is rather average in size.
I updated the image and the link got broken or something, it's now fixed.
What matters is not the amount but the quality of the source, things like height in bipedal position are not mentioned in scientific papers, total length is rarely mentioned too, I only fond a single scientific publication mentioning total length, 5.4m for an skeleton with a 71cm long femur.
Weird, I found so many papers after I made the size chart and it wasn't until I found and download a thesis that I got measurements of bigger bones, bummer that I didn't found before the paper you shared, well the thesis in question is De Iuiis (1996), the largest humerus mentioned there is 78cm long as well as the largest femur, the paper you linked has two humerii slightly larger than this, and the specimen referred to M. gallardoi specifically, appears to be the largest reasonably complete skeleton, 79.5cm long humerus and 76.4m femur (total lengths), this measurements are ~22.5% larger than in the specimen I used to make my size chart, I have to rescale it again because I found some inconsistencies but, if a 71cm femur belongs to a 5.4m long individual, then a 76.4cm femur probably belongs to an individual approaching 6m long and maybe close to 4m tall, but this is max size, not average, based on the data on De Iuiis (1996), the specimen I originally used for my size chart is rather average in size.
