Re: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs

[Jura <archosaur@reptilis.net>]

--- "Fam Jansma" <fam.jansma@worldonline.nl> wrote:

>Look at the Spinosaurus in JP3, I know, not the best reference to use, >but 
>compare both the forelimb of the "running-skull" and the "croc-on->legs", who 
>do you think will win in a armwrestle? It's like Dennis >Spade versus Arnold 
>Schwarzenegger. So the forelimbs in Spinosaurs >were made to hold down 
>struggling prey, like T. rex evolved it's big >jaws to do the same. If you 
>catch a fish it will go crazy and when you >have a skull as delicate as the 
>one of a Spinosaur to catch a >struggling fish, it would surely break. T.rex, 
>with it's reinforced >skull, wouldn't have to worry about a struggling 
>Hadrosaur, since the >skull is adapted to this kind of stress with it's 
>enormous bone-mass.


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Just how delicate is a spinosaur skull? From what I've seen of the skull of 
_Baryonyx_, they look to be fairly sturdy. They might not have been made for 
whatever it was tyrannosaurs were doing, but I wouldn't really call it: 
"delicate."

Well, maybe _Irritator_, but that was an exceptional skull (and an imaginative 
misuse of plaster).

Jura

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