LordGladiator666
MemberTriceratopsMay-04-2017 10:02 AM
This is one of the many questions which paleontologists tried to find an answer.
First of all : who is Sue?
She is the "largest" tyrannosaurus known and she was discovered in the summer of 1990. It's the most famous trex and the most complete, she stays at the Field science museum in Chicago and it's the t rex who gave inspiration to the famous film "jurassic park".
She is 12.3 meters long and almost 4 meters tall, she is larger than the largest complete giganotosaurus ever found ( holotype/type) too by recent discoveries.
Sue is also considered to be a record for a tyrannosaurus's size, however new evidence has come to show that she isn't the largest tyrannosaurus, just the most complete.
The specimens supposed to be larger than her are in total 3 , one is called "celeste" or "trix".
This giant after have been discovered is was supposed to be larger than Sue, but some experts think that it is just slightly smaller... in my opinion it is the same size
Another one, is just based on a small jaw fragment , considered to be "larger" than Sue's one. Well, I personally think that just a jaw fragment can't prove that it is bigger, we need a full skeleton to prove that.
Now we have the last one, the great point.
MOR 008 which we have a full large skull
This is the largest tyrannosaurus skull ever found in the history of paleontology and probably the biggest ever.
MOR 008 is less fragmentary than most of the other tyrannosaurus specimens estimated and less than the giganotosaurus paratype one (I will talk about it on another topic don't worry;)
It's skull is some centimeters longer than Sue's one and it weighs some kgs more , by the size it is estimated to be 14 meters long ( 50 ft) , by the way this is disproven by some paleontologists that classify it 12.52 meters long, someone say that it is larger than Sue , well it could be around the same size and larger than the giganotosaurus holotype for sure just like sue.
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As conclusion, I suggest to you all to do not believe 100% these estimations, these are just estimations and opinions, they could be right as they could be wrong.
So at this question I would say that mor 008 could be around the same size of sue or slightly larger
but if someone asks me " Is sue the largest tyrannosaurus, yes or no?" I will answer "We haven't many evidences of tyrannosaurus larger than sue so this is actually unproven."
Comment below of what you think about this and share your opinion if you want :)
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