Re: A T-rex named Sue

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Timothy Williams wrote:

<Tyrannosaurids tended to have proportionately longer
legs - just compare the legs of _Tyrannosaurus_ and 
_Ornithomimus_ - so _Tyrannosaurus_ may been taller
than _Giganotosaurus_. _Giga_ came from megalosaur or
allosaur stock, and it was a more robust, sturdy, and
heavy sort of theropod. Tyrannosaurs, for their size,
were fairly lightly built. _Giga_ would probably have
been heavier than _Tyrannosaurus_. Not sure which is
longer - that would depend upon the length of the tail
more than anything else.>

  Not really. Gigi has a longer skull and longer body
than Rex; Rex is wider, bulkier, and proportionately
stronger in form and specifically in limbs and neck,
than Gigi. Pound for pound, Rex probably had a ton oin
Gigi. So is we mean "big" by _mass_, Rex is the
biggest; if we mean "big" by _long_, Gigi has Rex beat
and can actually be counted the longest theropod [for
which reasonable material is known] -- that excludes
the 50ft. estimates for *Spinosaurus* due to the sheer
brevity of material.

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Jaime A. Headden

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