Re: late night thoughts: misunderstand what?

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@indexdata.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:23 AM

> David Marjanovic writes:
> > Tyrannosaurids don't look at all like specialized
> > sauropod-hunters. From such an animal I'd expect the ability to
> > make huge wounds in a short time and then retreat. This is what
> > carnosaurs, especially carcharodontosaurids, look
> > like. Tyrannosaurs were pursuit-and-bite predators.
>
> That's an interesting perspective.  What features of allosauroids make
> them more suited for wound-and-retreat than tyrannosaurs?

Their teeth are cutting rather than crunching, and their arms, while longer, 
were weaker, indicating they didn't "bite-and-hold".