Re: [dinosaur] Is Scotty really bigger than Sue

[Thomas Richard Holtz <tholtz@umd.edu>]

VariousÂresearchers (especially Nick Campione and Dave Evans) have found that femoral circumference is a good predictor of body mass. Here is a good recent reviewÂof theirs that examines questions of the accuracy and the precision (which are two VERY different things) of mass estimations:Âhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12638Â

The femur lengthÂof Scotty, though, is in the paper on Table 2: 1330 mm.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 5:26 AM Poekilopleuron <dinosaurtom2015@seznam.cz> wrote:

Good day!

I seem to be unable to find how long was the skull and/or femur of "Scotty" in the published paper. Is the femur circumference sufficient value to determine that "Scotty" was larger and heavier T. rex individual than "Sue"? Thank you in advance, Tom

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