Re: MNHN SAM 124

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>

> This is not to contradict Mickey, but I had considered spinosaurids to be 
> quite gracile for their size, which would lower the mass estimates compared 
> to the shorter but more massive carnosaurs.

Of course, this also depends on whether or not you subscribe to notion of 
fatty/muscular humps in spinosaurids as well.  I'd be interested to see the 
range of mass estimates calculated for dinosaurs with and without humps...

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

Website: http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/
AIM: jslice mallon

_________________________________________________________________
Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*   
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail