Re: Deinocheirus - size stats?

["no go" <honkietong@hotmail.com>]

> > Well, Deinocheirus is an ornithomimosaur, so comparing humerus length to 
> > other ornithomimosaurs should give us an approximate length.  Results 
> > range from 10.6 meters and 2.4 tons (Gallimimus) to 11.1 meters and 4.2 
> > tons (Ornithomimus) to 13 meters and 4.3 tons (Struthiomimus).  So 10-13 
> > meters long and 2.4-4.3 tons seems reasonable.  The second manual ungual 
> > is only 19.6 cm long, so your sources measurement was a bit high.<<

That nice. Speaking on what kind of animal Deinocherus really was, it has 
surfaced a few times that certain dromaeosaurids-to-the-extreme advocates 
have been trying to "grab" Deinocherus to place as some kind of gigantic 
dromaeosaurid. Indicating latest theories on teeth found in the original 
Spinosaurus fossils and trackways attributed to Deinocherus as some kind of 
gigantic "raptor".

Prehaps it slipped my mind then, but I didn't question how we could 
attribute teeth and tracks to an animal only known by its' arms? What do we 
make of this? Are they yanking my crank?




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