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Re: Ceratosaurus, venom or no?

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Subject: Re: Ceratosaurus, venom or no?
From: don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:16:31 -0800 (PST)
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--- On Thu, 12/24/09, William_Parker@nps.gov <William_Parker@nps.gov> wrote:

> As do some phytosaurs from the Late
> Triassic.....

Hmmm... not claiming to be knowledgeable, but do have some time -- 

Assuming my math is correct, an LD50 table here indicates a very loose but 
highly impressive approximation of 5.4gm tiger snake venom to kill a 30,000 kg 
sauropod (totally arbitrary and extreme sauropod mass, extrapolated from 
.18mg/kg sub-cutaneous injection, in mice). 

Wow.

<http://www.venomsupplies.com/toxicity/>

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