Re: Is it bigger than a bread box?

[Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>]

>Sorry if this is obviously to most, but there's at least one out here who
>wouldn't be able to properly size up a Troodon between a cat and an
>elephant.

Bigger than a bread box, smaller than a bread wagon ;-)

The smallest Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs were probably in the 20-50 kg
adult body mass, and 0.7-1.0 m at the hips.  If Avimimus made it to the
boundary, it was at about 11-14 kg body mass, and about 0.5 m at the hips.

                                
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.                                   
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