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My Top 10 Largest Theropods

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MemberCompsognathusDecember 05, 20143802 Views33 Replies

This is my top 10 largest Theropods, you will probably see some BIG surprises. Also sorry because I won't be giving a descrption about the theropods because I am tight on time right now. You may not see pictures because my old and stupid computer can't recognize them, so if a moderator, staff, or admin could edit it to have pictures of theropods that would be great. Anyways lets get started:

 

 

10-Suchomimus

Weight: 5.5 tons

Length: 11 meters

Diet: Fish and possibly other Dinosaurs like Ornithopods and Sauropods.

 

9-Torvosaurus

Weight: 6 tons

Length: 10 meters

Diet: Probably other Dinosaurs lke Sauropods, Ornithopods, Nodosaurs, and Stegosaurs.

 

8-Tarbosaurus

Weight: 6.5 tons

Length: 11 meters

Diet: Probably ate dinosaurs like Ornithopods, Ankylosaurs, Ceratopsians, and even other Theropods.

 

7-Acrocanthosaurus

Weight: 7 tons

Length: 11 meters

Diet: Other Dinosaurs like large Sauropods, Ornithopods, Nodosaurs, and Ankylosaurs.

 

6-Tyrannosaurus

Weight: 8 tons

Length: 11 meters

Diet: Other Dinosaurs like Ceratopsians, Ankylosaurs, and Ornithopods.

 

5- Deinocheirus

Weight: 8.5 tons

Length: 14 meters

Diet: Probably ate fish and plants and might have scavenged like modern-day bears.

 

4-Giganotosaurus

Weight: 9 tons

Length: 12 meters

Diet: Other Dinosaurs like huge Sauropods and Ornithopods.

 

3-Carcharodontosaurus

Weight: 9.5 tons

Length: 12 meters

Diet: Other Dinosaurs like large Sauropods and Ornithopods

 

2-Spinosaurus

Weight: 10.5 tons

Length: 15 meters

Diet: Probably fed on large fish and aquatic reptiles.

Side Note: Bet you thought Spino would be first, eh?

 

1-Oxalaia

Weight: 11 tons

Length: 15 meters

Diet: Probably fish and other Dinosaurs like Sauropods and Ornithopods.

Side Note: Seriously, who was expecting this?

 

So yeah, that was my list. There were some BIG surprises in there, I may add some honorable mentions, so stay tuned for that. Anyways tell me what you think of my list below!

 

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do you have any sources for these sizes? anyway, we have a tiny bit of dentary & the end of the premaxillae for O. quilombensis. basing off of suchomimus(5.5 tons is too much btw) TSL = ~1.18 meters which would put it in S. tenerensis' weight range (2.5-4 tons)

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if this list is your opinion, state such in the OP. the line between opinion & fact is awfully blurred here...

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I understand this is opinionated data, but these sizes for ALOT of animals really are inaccurate on what we know about each specimen. This is your opinion, but if you would like to know where you could fix/change certain things, PM me.

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Well just explain to me how you think oxalia, an animal in the weight range of 8 tons to a 12 ton monster. And show me proof and evidence because a 5 ton difference is a lot.

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Interesting list, I don't agree with all of it, but I see where you are coming from.

 

Concerning the pics, I am niether moderator nor staff, but I do own an iPhone 5c too and for me, I can get pics to work.

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How can Carch be heavier than Gig when the latter is most likely larger. Also, Mapu largest specimen is bigger than Gig largest specimen. Also, Oxalaia is not even near to that size. Its skull was likely even shorter than Suchomimus'.

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Yeah, I  noticed that too. Forgot about mapusaurus though... LotS, what's going on there? I'm not as taken back as I was (and still am) about Oxalaia, but this still raises some questions.

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Most sources put Mapusaurus at 3 tons, and thats not just Wikipedia. Mapusaurus had to be lightly built because it was probably a pack hunter, although an individual was not very strong they were very strong in packs. Plus, if Mapusaurus was like 8 tons they might starve because they hunt and feed in packs.

 

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Adding on to that, I personally think that Tyrannotitan was the ancestor of both Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus. I put my estimates of the weight of Tyrannotitan at about 5 tons, so it almost made the list.

 

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Ok, but that still doesn't explain why Carchar is higher than Giga...

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I'm curious why T.rex is so "small." 11 meters? I supppose I can see an 8 ton weight estimate(after all, I estimate it at 7-10 tons, so it's in there), but 11 meters? Sue, Stan, Scotty, King Kong, AMNH 5027, Wankel Rex, CM 9380, and so many others are bigger than that. Also, Oxalaia at 15 meters and 11 tons? Eh, probably not. 14 meters is the highest length estimate I've seen and even that's generally regarded as too high. 12 meters and 5 tons or so is more likely. The Deinocherius weight seems high as well. All in all, I agreed with this list until we hit number 6 on it, then it went "down hill" in my opinion(but that's just me).

 

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Largest Mapusaurus specimens were esimated at 100-110 % the size of MUPCv-ch1, so it likely approached 13 m.

Btw Wikipedia gives a 3 t figure, but they say more than 3 t, so it's intented to be a lower bound. Wikipedia didn't use the largest specimens as there is no published estimates for them, and Wikipedia can only use published informations.

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3 tons was for the ~10.5 meter individual. They didn't really discuss the larger ones

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