Post by theropod on Nov 26, 2014 22:50:23 GMT 5
I’ve got no confidence in Horner’s unpublished stuff.
Finding out the size of that Mosasaurus is actually not that complicated. It’s coming up vertically to swallow that shark, so the two have to be in pretty much the same plane. That thing’s a better scalebar for that skull than some I’ve seen published in Nature.
The maximum skull lenght of that is at least 70% greater than the total lenght of the shark, the mandible length at least 81%. That’s already distorting the skull as to make it shorter along its long axis, the animal from the trailer seems to have a less elongated skull (btw it also seems to have an underbite, i.e. wrongly articulated jaws).
Now, I strongly doubt that shark was supposed to be anything under 2m long, both because I don’t know any shark that has a built like that below 2m, and because I don’t think the makers of that film would deliberately use a tiny shark to compare to their mosasaur (that kind of comic relief is not known from the franchise if I’m not mistaken). That’s only my guess, but it looks like that. Perhaps someone can find better information.
I’m attaching a file for the measurements.
Sadly, on closer inspection, it looks like the Mosasaur has got some sort of crest on its back, like in inaccurate illustrations from 100 years ago. I hope that will not be too visible in the movie.
Finding out the size of that Mosasaurus is actually not that complicated. It’s coming up vertically to swallow that shark, so the two have to be in pretty much the same plane. That thing’s a better scalebar for that skull than some I’ve seen published in Nature.
The maximum skull lenght of that is at least 70% greater than the total lenght of the shark, the mandible length at least 81%. That’s already distorting the skull as to make it shorter along its long axis, the animal from the trailer seems to have a less elongated skull (btw it also seems to have an underbite, i.e. wrongly articulated jaws).
Now, I strongly doubt that shark was supposed to be anything under 2m long, both because I don’t know any shark that has a built like that below 2m, and because I don’t think the makers of that film would deliberately use a tiny shark to compare to their mosasaur (that kind of comic relief is not known from the franchise if I’m not mistaken). That’s only my guess, but it looks like that. Perhaps someone can find better information.
I’m attaching a file for the measurements.
Sadly, on closer inspection, it looks like the Mosasaur has got some sort of crest on its back, like in inaccurate illustrations from 100 years ago. I hope that will not be too visible in the movie.
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