Re: largest dinosaur (skulls)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Dear All,
    Thanks for the information.  I wasn't really thinking about the bony 
frills being included in skull length, but even including them, I didn't 
think they got much beyond 6 ft.   I stand corrected.   But I just wonder if 
we will ever get a supergiant Spinosaurus coming along to reclaim that 
distinction for the theropods?
    And although sauropods seem to be lagging badly in third place, I still 
suspect that their largest skulls will be close to four feet in length.
            -----Ken
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Jaime A. Headden wrote:
>   The longest theropod skull probably belongs to Spinosaurus maroccanus, 
> ref., Taquet and Russell, 1998, at around 6.5--7ft. (2.13--2.30m) and may 
> pertain to an animal over 45ft. long, but this is
> shear extrapolation based on Spinosaurus. The longest sauropod skull, I 
> believe, is one of the HM specimens belonging to Brachiosaurus brancai 
> (Giraffatitan) at abour or a little under a meter in
> length. However, the longest dinosaur skulls belong to ceratopsids, 
> specifically the
> chasmosaurines Pentaceratops and Torosaurus, to which Pete has already 
> replied, at nearly 3m in length or over, and Triceratops can get that big 
> as well, apparently.

> Jaime A. Headden


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