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Post by creature386 on Jan 4, 2015 18:38:37 GMT 5
I am not sure about stability here. Do you think the fact that Paraceratherium is more front-heavy could help there? After all, graviportal animals exchange speed for strength.
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Post by blaze on Jun 25, 2015 2:40:27 GMT 5
 Didn't know where else to put this. It's in regards to the much larger size ascribed to P. orgosensis, from the looks of it, that species just has a differently proportioned skull, more elongated and with longer teeth. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 25, 2015 3:06:29 GMT 5
Those are some seriously differing skulls...so much that I'm amazed at how they're apparently of the same genus and only different species.
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Post by blaze on Jun 25, 2015 5:42:18 GMT 5
I don't think there has been any serious phylogenetic analysis of their relationships, seems to be mostly old schoold style of taxonomy but yeah, they do look very different but who knows how much of that can be attributed to taphonomic distortion or reconstruction, for example in "B. grangeri" the skull roof and the contacts of the nasals and premaxilla with the rest of the skull are reconstructed but it still doesn't seem like they'll look very similar even accounting for that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 10:09:55 GMT 5
My vote goes to Shantungosaurus.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 12, 2019 21:57:03 GMT 5
The dinosaur should win, it is in general much more capable of fighting back here
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