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Carnivorous dinosaurs other than the famous t-rex and spinosaurus..
Carnivorous dinosaurs other than the famous t-rex and spinosaurus..
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Carnivorous dinosaurs other than the famous t-rex and spinosaurus..
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Masiakasaurus: 1m80 long,60 cm height, 35 kilos, South America, Late Cretaceous.
Another crylophosaurus representation (with its "Pompadour crest" described at a previous thread). A nice one !
A small raptor: an adasaurus. Till 2 meters long, 60 cm height, 15 kilos, late Cretaceous, in Mongolia.
One of the biggest carnivorous theropodia dinosaurs, carcharodontosaurus, even surpassing the famous t-rex in size: 13,50 meters long, weight estimated between 6,2 and 15 tons. Its name is called after the shark genus carcharodon because its tooth have the same characterisitcs, carcharodon meaning "sharp teeth". Skull size: 1m80. Mid Creaceous in North Africa.
 (07-23-2019, 01:46 AM)Spalea Wrote: One of the biggest carnivorous theropodia dinosaurs, carcharodontosaurus, even surpassing the famous t-rex in size: 13,50 meters long, weight estimated between 6,2 and 15 tons. Its name is called after the shark genus carcharodon because its tooth have the same characterisitcs, carcharodon meaning "sharp teeth". Skull size: 1m80. Mid Creaceous in North Africa. In fact, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was smaller than Giganotosaurus carolinii, which barely reached the 13.2 meters long (a highly estimated figure, as this large size was calculated from a very small fossil, the mandible fragment of the specimen MUCPv-95). The skull of Carcharodontosaurus was of c.160 cm, about the same than the holotype of Giganotosautus MUCPv-Ch1, and although slightly longer than the biggest T. rex skulls, there is still not consensus about its "nose", as it was reconstructed to "long". Scott Harman called it the "Pinocchio nouse" and probably it could be smaller. About the weights, the giant Giganotosaurus was estimated about 7-8 tons at maximum, so Carcharodontosaurus was smaller than that and both of them smaller than T. rex. Here is the image of the Carcharodontosaurus skull from the original paper of Sereno et al. (1996):  *This image is copyright of its original author Here is a good reconstruction from DevianArt artist Franoys, one of the best that I have saw:  *This image is copyright of its original author
Body size of the most complete Abelisauroid theropods known, from Grillo & Delcourt (2017):
 *This image is copyright of its original author The biggest one is Carnotaurus sastrei with 7.8 meters long, but based in incomplete bones, the largest of all the family was the Pycnonemosaurus nevesi with 8.9 meters long, check this reconstruction of artist "bricksmashtv" showing only the bones known of this animal.  *This image is copyright of its original author
@GuateGojira :
Thank a lot for your comments ! I see with pleasure that this subject is able to interest some forumers. I only introduced the carcharodontosaurus, and indeed I saw there were some controversy about its real dimensions. I know too that neither Giganatosaurus, nor carcharodontosaurus enjoyed a jaw as powerful as the t-rex's. Agree to say that none of them both was a so powerful predator (always compared to the t-rex). After all no fewer than 30 millions of years separate them from the great tyrannosaurids which ruled at the extreme end of the Cretaceous (the 5 or 10 last miliions years of this period). I intend to present other carnivorous dinosaurs (giganatosaurus, mapusaurus...) and complete what I have already said about T-rex.
Without further delay: the giganatosaurus which lived in Argentina at the same time than the giant sauropod Argentinosaurus - Mid Cretaceous - which should be one of its preys despite its very massive dimensions, because of that, of course, giganatosaurus had to hunt in pride. Dimensions: 12 to 13 meters long, weight between 4,5 and 13 tons (?), some big controverse remains as concerns its real dimensions like the case of the carcharodontosaurus.
Dromaeosaurus Albertensis: about 2 m (6.6 ft) in length and 15 kg (33 lb) in weight. Its mouth was full of sharp teeth, and it had a sharply curved "sickle claw" on each foot. Here the "feathered" version of this beast:
Carnotaurus : Abelisauridae, of Argentina and South America during the Late Cretaceous (72 to 69.9 millions years ago). 7m50 to 9m long, weighing between 1 and 2 tons according to some searchers. Like majungasaurus its forelimbs were vestigial. It is thought it was a fast runner.
An other representation of the dilophosaurus' head: plenty teeth !
A dilophosauris surprising and killing a plesiosaurus, i.e. an aquatic reptile : a confrontation that I don't believe possible. But it's only my opinion. Nice picture though.
An albertosaurus dangerously surrounded by two styracosaurus.
Albertosaurus was a tyrannosaurid: 9-10 meters long, 2 tons. Styracosaurus a ceratopsid 6 meters long, 3 tons. Both lived at Late Cretaceous (82 to 72 millions years) in North America (Canada and USA).
Giganatosaurus into a dense forest... Although the illustration is beautiful, I'm always skeptical when I imagine such a big animal like this walking in a forest. How could it run at full speed ? Its morphology is not appropriate.
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