Re: largest dinosaur (skulls)

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

Ken Kinman (kinman@hotmail.com) wrote:

<The longest dinosaur skulls are apparently all theropods.
  But what is the longest sauropod skull known, and the longest ornithischian 
skull (either actual
or estimated)?  Has the skull length of Argentinosaurus ever been estimated?>

  The longest theropod skull probably belongs to Spinosaurus maroccanus, ref., 
Taquet and Russell,
1998, at around 6.5--7ft. (2.13--2.30m) and may pertain to an animal over 45ft. 
long, but this is
shear extrapolation based on Spinosaurus. The longest sauropod skull, I 
believe, is one of the HM
specimens belonging to Brachiosaurus brancai (Giraffatitan) at abour or a 
little under a meter in
length. However, the longest dinosaur skulls belong to ceratopsids, 
specifically the
chasmosaurines Pentaceratops and Torosaurus, to which Pete has already replied, 
at nearly 3m in
length or over, and Triceratops can get that big as well, apparently.

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