Tyrannosaurus rex

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(06-10-2020, 12:35 AM)DinoFan83 Wrote: If it doesn't have a detailed description, it's certainly possible it could end up comparable in mass to Sue or Scotty. But if I were you, I would take museum figures of mounted skeletons (not just Tyrannosaurus but of most dinosaurs) with a grain of salt as they are often either taken along the curves or improperly measured.
Examples:
-FMNH states Sue to be 12.8 meters and their Patagotitan to be 37 meters; they are actually 12.3 meters and 31 meters as per Scott Hartman's and Greg Paul's reconstructions of them.
-BHI states Stan to be 12.2 meters; it is actually either 11.78 meters (as per the mount scans of Bates et al. 2009 and Hutchinson et al. 2011) or 11.28 meters (Scott Hartman).
So I'm not saying it's not similarly sized to Sue and Scotty as it very well could be, but don't take mounts at face value.

Im very aware of the issues that some museums have and the issues with tons and tons of skeletal mounts but the best way to know are from detailed studies from actual experts who know more about these animals and there body structure then me and you ever will and sadly we do not have that yet for MOR 980 or a fair few other Tyrannosaurus specimens. The theropod database is full of outdated information i might add. So i wont take mounts at face value ( i rarely do anyway) and you should not take what the theropod database as complete gospel. Im going through the database now and it does not even look like it has any of the updated measurements for Scotty unless im just blind. Reply