Fw: sauropods versus blue whales

["Thomas de Wilde" <jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com>]

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From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: sauropods versus blue whales


> > There are reasons to question the conclusion that the
> > new Canadian ichthyosaur is as large as blue whales,
>
> I thought it was estimated at "only" 23 m in length, around 10 less than
> blue whales? (More than a sperm whale, though.)

I'don't think so, there was a skeletton of 23m, but there were also remains
of a much bigger lad, there was a dorsal with a diameter of 36cm the biggest
dorsal of the 23m long creature was 27cm across, so if the 36cm is the
biggest dorsal of the barely found species, it would be something about 31m
in length, if it's a smaller dorsal it would be even bigger.

Thomas