Acro Rex
MemberCompsognathusJun-20-2014 7:15 AMWhile digging around, i've come across some interesting stuff! you guys will like it for sure...it seems that a truly giant theropod has been making its way around the web.
Estimate for a giant Jurassic Moroccan theropod ichnotaxon, based on Torvosaurus tanneri(it's believed to be Torvosaurine in nature)..
It ended up at about ~3.86 meters tall at the top of the pelvis, ~4.4 meters tall at the highest point, ~2.1 meters of skull length, and ~16.1 meters long. Scaling from a 9-meter, 2.2-tonne Torvosaurus tanneri, this enormous theropod would have had a mass of ~12.59 tonnes!
I don't have much info on it, but i will see what i can dig up..
Lord Vader
MemberTyrannosaurus RexJun-20-2014 7:31 AMNice find, and that's a pretty big carnivore.
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UCMP 118742
MemberCompsognathusJun-20-2014 7:58 AMI have tried to find some information on this animal, but I couldn't find anything, so I'll just go from what you've presented. Looking at the picture it seems like they only had a foot from which they got these massive estimations. I probably don't have to tell anyone how incredibly missleading and inaccurate these estimations are if they really just had a single foot and nothing more.
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Carnosaur
MemberCompsognathusJun-20-2014 9:20 AM
It's based on footprints, UCMP. That makes it even less credible..
Why do you assume it's Torvosaurine? I find it more plausible that it''s an allosaurid, also...did you do that skeletal? the arms look off..
Here's a paper on it: Click here
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Something Real
MemberTyrannosaurus RexJun-20-2014 10:23 AMACRO REX - That's an incredibly compelling bit of information! Discering an animal's size and lineage based on small amounts of evidence at first seems a bit forced to me. However, forensic scientists can deduce a staggering amount of information based on incredibly small details! If this new data is accurate, that animal would have been immense - quite the predator! Thank you very much for sharing this with us! :)
Acro Rex
MemberCompsognathusJun-20-2014 5:19 PMIndeed it's a massive predator! i'm curious to see what comes of it..
And @Carnosaur that seems to be an unrelated animal, for this has skeletal remains to go alongside it. That's a footprint...
Anyway, I've dubbed this creature "Torvotitan Moroccanus" The Moroccan savage titan. Fitting name i would think for such a massive creature
dinoboy22
MemberCompsognathusJun-20-2014 8:01 PMvery cool. @ acro rex thats an awesome name. doubt the real name will be a cool as that
Alphadino65
MemberTriceratopsJun-20-2014 10:04 PMNow this is BIG news... :P (sorry for the pun, but I had to).
If this new therapod is indeed THAT long and THAT heavy, it would make our beloved big 4 look puny (for Spinosaurus, probably downright scrawny).
Something Real
MemberTyrannosaurus RexJun-20-2014 10:51 PMALPHADINO65 - I wonder how efficient a killer such a carnivore would be - or how fast it would move! Each stride would likely carry it a solid 2 to 2.5 meters while walking! :)
Jezza
MemberCompsognathusJun-21-2014 1:08 AMMassive, I wonder if we find more of it and are having spino vs rex vs torvotitan battles. :D
Youre fat, and I'm not sugarcoating it cause you'd probably eat that too.
Alphadino65
MemberTriceratopsJun-21-2014 11:06 AMSomething Real-I think that inherently is would be a very efficient hunter of large prey, but every predator has a weakness. As for it's speed, I wouldn't say it would be very fast, probably around 20 mph, but I'd imagine each stride would cover more than 10 feet when walking.
Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusJun-21-2014 11:30 AMWell, I don't like footprints personally. The print could be distorted or changed in some way. Or the animal might just have big/small feet. If someone saw a giraffe print and didn't know what a giraffe looked like, they'd assume it was a small animal. I doubt they'd think it was 16 ft tall and weighed 3,000 pounds, it just has small feet. Same with a white tail deer. A mature buck could be over 150 pounds, but it's tracks are smaller than your hand. To get an actual dinosaur in this, Australovenator's track size would indicate an animal 8 ft tall at the hip, but it's only 5 ft tall at the hip. Long story short, footprints show how an animal moved, if it was alone or in a group, and some other details, but I don't trust them when it comes to size.