Re: T-rex arms

["Nicholas R. Longrich" <longrich@citmail.Princeton.EDU>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
> 
> Well, another possibility surely is that the arm may have been grabbed by
> the mouth of another animal (perhaps another T rex) during a fight and
> wrenched hard? 
        Likely that if this happened, there would be some pretty big 
toothmarks left in the arm bones- a T. rex tooth is six inches long and 
can punch clean through the head of a Triceratops femur. They also leave 
nasty bitemarks on their bones, big U-shaped tooth patterns. 
        -nick L.