Giganotosaurus carolinii

[DinoFan83]

I thought these might be a helpful addition to this thread.

Here are some conversations I have had with Scott Hartman regarding the validity of his original estimates for Giganotosaurus compared to the significantly larger estimates I have outlined above from GetAwayTrike, Greg Paul, and SpinoInWonderland. The messages in these screenshots should be very important to consider for anyone who thinks the estimates in this thread that make the animal quite a bit larger than Scott's original estimates are inaccurate just because they are larger.

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EDIT 04/22/2021: As can be seen in the above images, Hartman suggests that the ribcage would probably be narrower regardless of the pectoral girdle. I didn't really notice this until somebody elsewhere pointed it out, so I went and asked Hartman what he meant. Here is that conversation.

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Given that he doesn't think my inflating the ribcage based on Acrocanthosaurus' proportions is unreasonable, I see no reason to think so either. At this point, anyone who wants to use estimates lower than the ones in this thread will have to justify that very, very well. Reply