Re: T.rex needs a diet!

[Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>]

I'm a bit at a loss wrt people's surprise! Allen et al. 2009 showed
way more muscular tails etc. than often assumed, Person & Currie 2010
showed the same, my Plateo models is also quite a bit heavier than
many calculations before (Henderson 2006?). Phil Manning keeps telling
people about the wide-assed hadrosaurs..... no wonder Rexy is more
massiv, too!

And you don't need a LIDAR scanner for this, a friendly hospital
doctor with a CT and a few days of dismounting, transporting and
re-mounting will do ;)

Dr. Heinrich Mallison
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:
>> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
>> On Behalf Of Brian Hathaway
>>
>> Given enough time it will pass Spino !
>
> Not likely! One (generally unstated) outcome of this analysis is that a LOT 
> of dino masses would have to be increased, but we don't
> have the specimens (and the LIDAR scans...) to get the analyses done yet.
>
>> Has there been any recent scrap of evidence that any sauropod
>> survived in N.A.
>> during Rexy's existence?
>> That would be so thrilling to find its puncture marks on a
>> titano-guy.
>>  -Brian
>
> Alamosaurus: 
> http://saurian.blogspot.com/2011/10/alamosaurus-and-naashoibito.html
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