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Post by roninwolf1981 on Nov 9, 2020 10:51:01 GMT 5
So I take it that there's nobody left to do custom size comparisons anymore?
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 9, 2020 18:19:15 GMT 5
If by that you mean those from dinosauria101, then yes, unless someone else would like to take the mantle of doing that.
You'd be better off getting someone else to make size comparisons, or at least not getting them from dinosauria101, anyway.
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Post by roninwolf1981 on Nov 10, 2020 9:04:55 GMT 5
If by that you mean those from dinosauria101, then yes, unless someone else would like to take the mantle of doing that. You'd be better off getting someone else to make size comparisons, or at least not getting them from dinosauria101, anyway. All things considered, I would forward my requests towards somebody that comes in high regard on this site...whoever is left anyways. |
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Post by elosha11 on Nov 24, 2020 9:56:11 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 16, 2020 5:02:22 GMT 5
A bunch of big theropods from Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: The Theropods. Original image source here->.  |
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Post by spartan on Dec 17, 2020 0:29:42 GMT 5
What's up with that Giant Megaraptor? Is it based on some isolated giant fossil?
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Post by roninwolf1981 on Dec 17, 2020 19:29:36 GMT 5
A bunch of big theropods from Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: The Theropods. Original image source here->. Is it ok for me to be of the camp that is still unconvinced that Spinosaurus's legs were that short? Or is what I'm saying considered "heresy?" |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 17, 2020 20:31:01 GMT 5
What's up with that Giant Megaraptor? Is it based on some isolated giant fossil? Just in case, I want to make it clear that I'm pretty sure it's not meant to be Megaraptor itself, but some megaraptoran (it seems they just sometimes refer to these as "megaraptors"). I made a post about it here->. Basically, there's a huge theropod tooth from China that rivals the size of the teeth of taxa like Tyrannosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus, although its morphology is different from either of these. Because of this the original paper doesn't identify it, but the book that the size comparison came from believes it to be a megaraptoran. Admittedly it's a tooth based estimate, so take it for what you will. I'm not that knowledgable about the nitty gritty of the whole Spinosaurus leg issue, but at least from what I can tell, it's pretty clear that they were indeed this short. Even Scott Hartman's most recent reconstruction isn't very long-legged. So in any case, we're certainly past the point of long-legged Spinosaurus by now, if that's what you're wondering. If there's any issue with that Spinosaurus now, it's that its tail is now outdated. |
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Post by kekistani on Dec 17, 2020 21:20:49 GMT 5
What's up with that Giant Megaraptor? Is it based on some isolated giant fossil? I have the book-the "Giant megaraptor" is a specimen based off of a fossil tooth labelled NHMG 8500 that the authors match to the Megaraptorans. It rivals those of T.rex and Carcharodontosaurs in size. A lot of these size estimates are based off of fragments-" Megalosaurus" ingens is portrayed as a 40 foot long Veterupristisaurus-style carcharodontosaur based off of a giant row of teeth collected in the 1920's, The rex is based off of one of the giant UCMP specimens, and of course the enormous T.rex-heavy Giganotosaurus we see here is based on the MucPV-95 jaw fragment. Such estimates are given an ESA (Estimated Size Accuracy) rating of "low" due to the scant remains used to get them. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 21, 2020 6:44:12 GMT 5
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Post by elvispresley68 on Jan 2, 2021 23:44:19 GMT 5
I've noticed that there wasn't any specific thread dedicated to size comparisons on this forum so I thought it would be a good idea to create one! I'll start off with one of "the classics":  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 3, 2021 0:15:53 GMT 5
elvispresley68 I moved your post to this thread. We actually do have a size comparison thread.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 6, 2021 1:52:00 GMT 5
Tyrannosaurus specimen Sue with an African bush elephant. I can't know for sure who originally made this, even after reverse image searching it; most of the results come from Pinterest, and attribution's virtually impossible on that site. I did, however, first see this size comparison in this Quora answer-> by Matt Dale Conrad. 
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 16, 2021 8:22:37 GMT 5
Yellow Cat Member fauna of the Cedar Mountain Formation. © @ PaleoNeolitic->.  |
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Post by elvispresley68 on Jan 25, 2021 16:39:33 GMT 5
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