Re: Achillobator - how big is it??

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Timothy Williams wrote:

> Anyway, there is one thing I still can't work out, even after reading the 
> paper.  How BIG is _Achillobator_?  The authors state it is three times the 
> size of _Deinonychus_, which should put it in the ball-park of 8 to 9m.

Three times the size, not length.

> The femur of _Achillobator_ is about 50cm long.  As a ROUGH guide to the 
> size of smaller dromaeosaurids, the total adult body length is about ten 
> times the femoral length: _Deinonychus_'s femur is about 30cm, 

So 5/3 as long and three times as massive -- that doesn't sound too
weird, does it? I'm probably/roughly/nearly three times as massive as
someone 3/5 my height.

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