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Post by tyrannasorus on Sept 11, 2023 8:30:27 GMT 5
Top view of a giraffe—> HereThey have a surprising amount of bulk tbh |
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Post by Supercommunist on Sept 11, 2023 23:55:30 GMT 5
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Post by Exalt on Sept 12, 2023 2:41:57 GMT 5
This makes me feel like somehow, literally everything has failed to demonstrate how huge Hadrosaurs can be.
And to think that Shantungosaurus is supposed to be even larger...
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Post by Supercommunist on Sept 19, 2023 5:13:40 GMT 5
Torvosaurus' head looks really bulky and somewhat like a rex's from the side but is actually rather narrow.  |
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Post by lionclaws on Sept 25, 2023 2:10:38 GMT 5
Torvosaurus' head looks really bulky and somewhat like a rex's from the side but is actually rather narrow. A better comparison would be an earlier tyrannosaur of similar size, to which it appears to be broadly comparable. Tyrannosaurus rex was doing something weird. Most of its relatives had narrow snouts and bladelike teeth, and are only set apart from other theropods by bite force, robusticity, and agility. |
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Post by theropod on Sept 25, 2023 3:35:01 GMT 5
Non-Spinosaurid megalosauroid skulls are quite elongated even in lateral view (spinosaurids’ are too of course, but they are in a whole different league obviously), but there are certain longirostrine tyrannosauroids to which they compare somewhat favourably, especially alioramines, but also (interestingly enough) megaraptorans. The funny thing is that longirostrine tyrannosaurids still had reduced forelimbs (even small taxa), while megaraptorans and megalosauroids both shared the feature of large-clawed and powerful forelimbs, even in large taxa (like Chilantaisaurus and Torvosaurus).
There are some crazy-robust reconstructions of the skull of Torvosaurus out there, which I used to be extremely impressed by, but they are just bad reconstructions, plain and simple. Torvosaurus has the reputation of being robust-skulled, because the individual bones are quite massive, meaning for its dimensions the skull is less lightly constructed than some others, but shape-wise it is quite shallow and long.
Without saying it’s necessarily inaccurate though, I’d advise some caution when taking reconstructions like the above dorsal view at face value when it’s unclear what exactly they are based on). Earlier (on this very thread) we used to marvel at how narrow-bodied Ceratosaurus apparently was, based on Greg Paul’s skeletal, only to then find out that only a small handful of incomplete, isolated ribs have even been found (which, together with the dendency of ribs to not preserve their 3-dimensional shape very well in the face of sediment compaction, means this reconstruction rests on rather uncertain footing).
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Post by Supercommunist on Feb 14, 2024 11:08:52 GMT 5
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