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Spinosaurus Rex

MemberCompsognathusAugust 27, 201416037 Views151 Replies

Oh, what a great dinosaur to talk about! And also a great conversation topic! Well, im going to let you guys know where i stand in size and what not, so be prepared!

Spinosaurus, hence the dinosaur i got my name from. Lets me get started on size, shall we? The places where i get my estimations are purely through what ive saw on most sites that have its size stated and also through observations of animals it has similarities with. All in all, i believe its size is up to 60 ft in length and 14 or 15 tons at most. My reason being is there is no reason for a carnivore to be long and not have weight and height, as well as a bunch of muscle to go along with that length. Length and predation do not mix well, at all, end of story. Which brings me to my second point, which i have stated many times in the past, a land predator that large simply does not rely on the smallest prey in an ecosystem, and also, somthing that large needs to feed almost constantly to keep the energy it needs to kill more/defend itself from intruders. 

Fish and small dinosaurs would not be enough to satisfy this enormous carnivore's hunger, so it would most likely resort to eating the much larger individuals of the dinosaurs in the area. Yes, it's skull shape insists it was adapted to capturing fish, but i look at it as more of an accesory to further satisfy its large appetite. 

This information i dont look at as merely just OPINIONS, i look at them more as highly educated guesses as to what this dinosaurs was and how it lived, and to add another thing, this is obviously nothing that is meant for starting and arguement, so please, people with strong opinions against this, tread very lightly with what you say, or i will notify you about it and depending on how aggressive you are towrds it, i will not hesitate to give you that same back, but through PM's.

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Here, let me explain that..

Well, in terms of oversize and robusticity, The major theropod groups go like  this:

Allosaurs---->Spinosaurs----> Carcharodontosaurs----> Tyrannosaurs

At parity, A spinosaur would weigh more then an Allosaur

a twenty five foot allosaurus Fragillis for example, would weigh 1.5 tons. Meanwhile, A baryonyx scaled down to twenty five feet would weigh ~1.8-2.25 tons.

See what i'm getting at?

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Again, id say the robustness of an animal correlates to the amount of species of carnivores of similar size, but also again, thats just me.

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And yes i see what you're getting at Carno ;)

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Thanks carno :) Never knew allosaurus were that fragile!

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Tyrant king
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they arent fragile.

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How do you know TK? Usually when you deny someone's claims you give evidence as to why.

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well,first off look at their anatomy.(i cant post pics) they have no evidence of being fragile. they may for some reason look it, but hey are very powerful. they needed to be becasue of the things they lived with fearsome creatures such as saurophaganax, torvosaurs and ceratosaurs. my poin is that they neeeded to be strong to deal with these predators. if it wasnt it would get pushed around and outcompeted and allosaurus lived for 15 million years or more and that is a long freakin time wich means it was well adapted and powerful. it also liveed with animals like the fleet footed camptosaur and huge sauropods and dangerous stegosaurs, all this means it was a diverse generalized advanced strong super predator

 

tyrant out....

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That still really isn't a good reason of why it couldn't be fragile. We humans are fragile compared to other creatures, and we can survive prett well! Somewhat.

IT'S TIME TO DU-DU-DU-DU-DUEL!!!

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Allosaurs were indeed rather fragile. Yes, it lived alongside other carnivores, but that doesn't mean much. Ceratosaurus was small compared to Allo, and it ate smaller prey, as well scavenging. Torvo was huge, and it ate similar things to Allo, but there was enough food to go around. Allo survived a long time because it was a decent size, was found everywhere, it was a pack hunter, and it wasn't picky when it came to what it hunted. Allosaurs were on the fragile side, but they made up for it with several other factors. 

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Ahhh... The glory days of the Jurassic Park forums (when topics would actually get more than 50 comments... per day!). Almost brings a tear to my eye how everything has died down. Kinda cool to see that I'll be making the 150th comment on my own topic lol.

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^Wait...SO YOU'RE THE SPINOSAURUS FANBOY WHO GOT BANNED LOL! XD

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