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theropod-groups!?
Topic Started: May 8 2015, 12:01 AM (1,590 Views)
Oxalaia
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Hello everyone,

Paleontologists discovered that Mapusaurus hunted in gangs in order to take down Argentinosaurus.
Now I think that almost every predator that lived together with a giant sauropod must have hunted in gangs.
Sauroposeidon was the biggest herbivore in America in the early Cretaceous, the Apex-predator was Acrocanthosaurus.
Acrocanthosaurus must have hunted in gangs, otherwise full-grown Sauroposeidon wouldn't have any natural enemies. Or Acrocanthosaurus only preyed on juveniles...

Now the question is: Were most Theropods capable of hunting in gangs? They were very primitive after all.

Tell me what you think about this!

Best regards, Oxalaia
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DinosaurFan95
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Spinodontosaurus
May 25 2015, 12:11 PM
Allosaurusatrox
May 25 2015, 11:06 AM
So then by big cats you also include fat house cats?

See how a generic term looks?
Big cat = Panthera, the house cat is Felis. So no, no fat house cats.
Tell that to AW, who used a generic term to refer to all large theropods, a term that should be used only to reffer to a specific subset of theropod. I was using the felid family as an example of a contemporary use of such inadequate labels.
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Spinodontosaurus
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No, he did not.
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Yes, he did.
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Oh for the flying spaghetti monsters sake, there is exactly one definition for carnosaurs, that of all theropods that share a more recent common ancestor with Allosaurus than with passer domesticus.
Why would anyone still expect the term to be used to denominate something else?
What he wrote was this, in case you forgot "Most theropods like carnosaurs needed to be in groups, since they hunted much karger[sic] prey like sauropods."

Tell me where he "used a generic term to refer to all large theropods, a term that should be used only to reffer[sic] to a specific subset of theropod"

If I write "dinosaur" in a post, would you have to ask whether I meant actual dinosaurs or one of the various non-dinosaurian groups that are referred to as dinosaurs in pop culture?

@arctic wolf: Yes, I agree with you, what I wrote was precisely that: I disagree with the claim that they only preyed on giant sauropods, I am quite sure that they did on occasion.
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h for the flying spaghetti monsters sake, there is exactly one definition for carnosaurs, that of all theropods that share a more recent common ancestor with Allosaurus than with passer domesticus.
Why would anyone still expect the term to be used to denominate something else?
What he wrote was this, in case you forgot "Most theropods like carnosaurs needed to be in groups, since they hunted much karger[sic] prey like sauropods."


He is grasping for straws in a debate I am dominating.

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@arctic wolf: Yes, I agree with you, what wrotw was precisely that: I disagree with the claim that they only preyed on giant sauropods, I am quite sure that they did on occasion.

I am sure they hunted other prey like ornithopods and small sauropods instead of the largest sauropods. That would be to risky.
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While the risk would make sauropods a rare prey, there are enough examples of predators taking down impressive prey despite the risk, so it cannot be ruled out.
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Some paleontologists think Mapusaurus took on adults of Argentinosaurus in packs. Daspletosaurus may also have hunted in packs.
I think big theropods mostly hunted on smaller prey like ornithopods, but sometimes they took down a giant sauropod in a pack.
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