Ekrixinatosaurus was waay bigger than we thought

Adam Khor

I don´t know if you guys knew about this already, it's not extremely recent news but seems that no one paid a lot of attention to it.

Ekrixinatosaurus (explosion-born reptile) is usually said to have been 7-8 meters long, about the size of Carnotaurus. However, a new study finds that it had very different proportions and that it was a very massive, powerful animal with a length of about 10-11 meters!

This makes Ekrixinatosaurus the largest known abelisaur, and disproves the idea that abelisaurs couldn´t reach giant sizes until the dissappearance of carcharodontosaurs (Ekrixinatosaurus coexisted with Giganotosaurus).

Here's the paper: http://www.notosoft.com.ar/pdfs/Juarez_Porfiri_Calvo.pdf

And here's an Ekrix vs Giga pic:

Galvasean

Nice find with the paper (think I'll repost it in the paper thread). Very nice pic too

Just looking at the width of Ekrixinatosaurus' skull and it's an absolute beast! :eek:

Alvin T. Grey

Hhhmmmm. Interesting.
Working on a theory regarding the individuality of late cretatious N. America and the apparent lack of diversity among the top preditors for the last 5 million years.

This fits in quite well...

Rubecula

So OK this is going to show up my lack of knowledge a lot. But you don't learn anything if you ignore your limitations.

I have never heard of Ekrixinatosaurus before this thread.

Galvasean

Alvin T. Grey wrote: »

Hhhmmmm. Interesting.
Working on a theory regarding the individuality of late cretatious N. America and the apparent lack of diversity among the top preditors for the last 5 million years.

This fits in quite well...

I'm still holding out for some late surviving relative of Acrocanthosaurus...

Alvin T. Grey

Galvasean wrote: »

I'm still holding out for some late surviving relative of Acrocanthosaurus...

There was. But "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named" reclassified them as a juvenile T.Rex on the grounds that they were both bipedal. A lot of Paleontologists got on board with the idea on the grounds that he had to get something right eventually....

Alvin T. Grey

Rubecula wrote: »

So OK this is going to show up my lack of knowledge a lot. But you don't learn anything if you ignore your limitations.

I have never heard of Ekrixinatosaurus before this thread.

You didn't know?
It's latin for "explosion-born reptile", but coincidently it's also swedish for "Ceratasaurus-in-a-funny-hat".

Just one of those linguistic quirks....;)

Adam Khor

Alvin T. Grey wrote: »

There was. But "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named" reclassified them as a juvenile T.Rex on the grounds that they were both bipedal. A lot of Paleontologists got on board with the idea on the grounds that he had to get something right eventually....

More details plz!

Galvasean

Found this on another forum:


Holding out on us buddy?

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Found this on another forum:


Holding out on us buddy?

What forum was that? :O This is the only forum where I participate XD

Galvasean

That Carnivora forum. I think they have your Deviant Art page bookmarked and scan regularly ffor new dinos/pics.

Rubecula

fer gawds sake get the darn things published before they rip you off totally mate. You are losing out.

Galvasean

Rubecula wrote: »

fer gawds sake get the darn things published before they rip you off totally mate. You are losing out.

He can sue the people who rip him off... then suer everyone else who draws realistic looking dinosaurs, just like Greg Paul :pac:
http://paleoking.blogspot.com/2011/03/greg-paul-threatens-legal-smackdown.html

Galvasean

Come to think of it, suddenly the huge 'carnotaurs' from Disney's Dinosaur no longer seem so far fetched.

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Come to think of it, suddenly the huge 'carnotaurs' from Disney's Dinosaur no longer seem so far fetched.

Which is cool because those carnotaurs are probably the most badass dinosaurs ever rendered other than the ones in JP