Re: Cetiosaurus question

["Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote-

> > and the longest Sauropods femur (2360mm)".
>
> ¡¡¡AYAYAY!!! :-O :-o :-O :-o :-O :-o _Two meters thirty-six_! That
mountain
> of an animal must have been 2 stories high at the hips! Does anyone dare
to
> calculate its length? <mad giggling>

I'll bite.  Assuming a build like Patagosaurus (which seems to be a true
cetiosaurid, though a chimaera; using Paul's 1997 reconstruction), that
would scale up to about 28 meters long.
Compared to other big sauropods-
Argyrosaurus- 18-22 meters
Antarctosaurus? giganteus- 19-23 meters
Paralititan- 20-24 meters
Argentinosaurus- 22-26 meters
Bruhathkayosaurus- 28-34 meters
Amphicoelias fragilimus- 56-62 meters

Mickey Mortimer