RE: Raptors

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Jaime A. Headden [SMTP:qilongia@yahoo.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, September 02, 1998 10:53 PM
        To:     dinosaur@usc.edu
        Cc:     Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com
        Subject:        RE: Raptors

        Dwight Stewart wrote:

        <Which brings up the specimen discovered in Argentina, the
        "Megaraptor". Is it a Dromaeosaur dinosaur? If so, isn't the size
        estimate on it something in the order of 4.2 meters tall?>

          Whoa, baby! Almost twelve feet, you say? My estimates of the bones
        illustrated in Nat. Geo. and subsequent measures given on the list
        place the animal's height at about seven feet (2.2m) high at the hip
        and some twenty-five feet (7.6m) in length, snout to tip of the
tail,
        as based on a dromaeosaur's (raptors, to those who prefer it)
        proportions. Nasty critter, size of a horse.

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        Jaime A. Headden

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        Hi, Jaime!  

          Well, that's the "height thing" again! :-)  I saw that estimate on
the Giganotosaurus Web Page.  I ASSUME (usually risky) that it meant to the
top of the head, not at the hip.  By "size of a horse" you mean weight?
This creature would be a formidable predator, certainly!

        Dwight