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DrScottHartman — How big is your favorite dinosaur?
Published: 2013-04-19 18:20:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 22599; Favourites: 298; Downloads: 0
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Now before you start freaking out, note that the T. rex specimen is Sue (i.e. the largest T. rex) while the Triceratops and Stegosaurus specimens that I restored are one the smaller side. For that reason I included silhouettes of known larger specimens to provide a better estimate of the overall size range. I couldn't do this with Apatosaurus or else everything else would have gotten too small.Finally, note that Velociraptor is the actual skeletal, while the gray silhouetted dromaeosaur is Deinonychus, not some giant specimen of Velociraptor.
Enjoy, and if you have some good ideas for other comparisons let me know, I'm officially taking suggestions right now.
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How about Spinosaurus and Dilophosaurus?
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Wow amazing i could suggest a comparison between thyriephoran species like Dacentrurus and sauropelta ...or somethin similar
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No wonder these Dino were very popular large but except the small Dino which include Triceratops, Deinonychus and even Stegosaurus.
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I am genuinely surprised that nobody even hinted at a 'large theropods' request, although I suppose it is pretty overdone.
How about theropods (or dinosaurs) from the Morrisson Formation?
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I would love if you did pages featuring groups of dinosaurs to scale, like a theropod page, sauropod page, etc. I would especially enjoy the size disparity between a T. rex and a Microraptor.
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I think this sounds like a promising idea.
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Now that I'm thinking about it I'm curious to know how big the Jurassic Park Raptors are in comparison to their real-life counter-part and Deinonychus.
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There you go [link]
The answer is, very big.
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What I'm really wondering about is how similar (size or other factors) Utahraptor is compared to the JP-Raptors that it's often compared to.
...Please get that paper published, whoever you are...
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How long is the skull of the silhouetted Triceratops? I once tried to scale your skeletal to the size of USNM 4842 but it came out smaller than Paul's and it was then that I realized that his skeletal had proportionally shorter limbs, could this be because of your Triceratops skeletal being a young adult? kinda like Stan vs Sue, limb lengths are not that different but the body balloons up in Sue compared to Stan.
Then there's CM 1618 with a femur almost 1.3m long, more or less as big again as USNM 4842 is compared to WDC LF-001. It's one of the 9m long, 2.5m skull specimens right?
Regarding suggestions... what about one with Jurassic theropods? people have believed that Ceratosaurus is small and Torvosaurus is gigantic for far too long.
BTW your raptors now come with feathers or is that only for this size comparison?
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The feathers are just for the size comparison - it has a material impact on how big they appear.
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I'd love to see a Spinosaurus, Shaochilong, Carnotaurus, Mosasaurus, Breviparopus, or a Sauroposeidon.
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I'd like seeing Austroraptor, Ceratosaurus, Ekrixinatosaurus or Magnapaulia here, myself.
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Whoops, meant Magnapaulia. Put another slash by mistake.
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I'd say the specimen you based your Triceratops skeletal on ought to be a smallish/non fully grown one; Sue looks able to dispatch it without breaking a sweat, after all...
In fact, Sue looks quite ginormus there, kinda odd to see a Tyrannosaurus not dwarfed by a sauropod of all things...
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You're right, and I say so in the description.
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I think the deinonychus and velociraptor should be moved up closer to the human, I barely spotted them and only noticed them due to the Description
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Heh, it's a reward for reading the description
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Brachiosaurs, Allosaurus, and Utahraptor would be my suggestions.
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I always thought Triceratops and Stegosaurus were bigger. Like in the 9m range.
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The very largest fragmentary specimens (represented above by gray silhouettes) are that big. But not most specimens.
Also remember that 9m isn't a line drawn on the floor from the front to the back, it's measured along the curve of the body (unlike the way they measure people at a doctors office).
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Aaah this is spiffy!
Insta-fave.
(Despite a lack of oviraptorids, egads).
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What about a general scale of specimens from the respective time periods? Like sizes of some popular genera from all 3 time periods of the Mesozoic?
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Add Brachiosaurus and Spinosaurus! Ankylosaurus and Allosaurus wouldn't be bad additions either.
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Seconding for parasaurolophus, and my 5-year-old daughter asks if you can do a diplodocus as well.
(She'd also like to know how big they'd be next to a 5-year-old. 
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I see a lot of votes for Parasaurolophus, so that'll go in next. Adding a child for scale isn't a bad idea at all...I even have a 5 year old of my own I could base it on.
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She'll be so psyched to see that!
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I want to see Styracosaurus, Albertosaurus (you can include some sort of Gorgosaurus data too), the biggest hadrosaur ever classified, Procomsognathus, and Compsognathus.
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My favorite dinosaur is 30 feet long, 13 feet high and weighs 10 tons.
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I'm always boggled by the sizes, there's so little to compare to in todays fauna, with thos beefy tails, long necks... How about including Iguanodon, Megalosaurus(!), Ankylosaurus, some star names?
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Hadrosaur of some sort would probably do aswell. When it comes to the better known genera. for me it was always Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus (or female P. walkeri depending how one looks at it) since I learned about this animal and I am probably not mistaken that the genus is one of the most 'iconic' hadrosaurs.
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I want the large Oklahoma apatosaurus
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You can always cross-reference this diagram with the one I posed here: [link]
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There are already there, just too small to see.
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This is awesome. :3 Also I'd love to see Allosaurus, and maybe one or more of the smaller ornithischians (Heterodontosaurus or Psittacosaurus maybe?) --
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