Spinosaurus News ~

[DinoFan83]

For anyone who's read the debate on pages 6-7 of this thread, this should be a helpful image. Spinosaurus model from Henderson (2018) with the ribcage problem fixed; it now has the ribcage about as wide as the deepest point of the torso and masses >12 tonnes instead of 7. Doesn't have the new tail, but you get the idea.

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Also, an important note regarding extrapolations from FSAC-KK 11888 to a >12 tonne MSNM v4047: Aside from the fact that the size discrepancy between the 2 specimens could very well be 40-45 plus percent instead of 32.5% as Ibrahim et al. suggests, we also need to remember that while the neotype is the most complete Spinosaurus thus far, the fact of the matter is that it's still not very complete in and of itself. It could very well be larger than the model from Ibrahim (2020) and scale to a >12 tonne MSNM v4047 with only a 32.5% size increase. Reply