Re: Giant sauropod skulls

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Chris,
    Good question.  I'd like to know myself what the range of skull length 
would be.  It would depend somewhat on which family of sauropod, but about 4 
feet might be a good approximation (perhaps one of the sauropod experts 
could give a range of skull lengths for the bigger forms).
     Giraffatitan probably got up to 100 feet long, and there are some 
skulls of it known.  But even if one doesn't have a skull, one could roughly 
estimate skull size from other bones.
                -------Ken
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> From: MR_CYNIC@webtv.net (Chris C)
> Reply-To: MR_CYNIC@webtv.net
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Giant sauropod skulls
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:32:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Just curious, but how large would the skull be on a 100 ft long
> sauropod? Have there been complete skulls found of any of the ultra
> large beasts?
>
> Chris Clifford
>
> Insensitive Bastard
>
>
> http://community.webtv.net/MR_CYNIC/ChrisStruggling


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