Re: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs

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

> There haven't been any bite force studies or what have you done with
> spinosaurid jaws, to my knowledge.  I mean, even the case study with
> _Allosaurus_ surprised us in showing how well the skull could stand up to
> stress.
> Anyway, just ventin'.
>
> Jordan Mallon

To my knowledge, according to the paper, at least, the bite force studies of 
Allosaurus indicated it had a surprisingly weak bite, but the strong skull 
of the animal allowed it to employ its head via its powerful neck muscles 
like some kind of hatchet to bring down on the target, prehaps ending with a 
backwards pull to enlarge the wound. But as far as bite force is concerned, 
Allosaurus did pretty poor (at least according to the paper). What do you 
guys think?

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