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Venom : Earliest animals to develop and use it.
Topic Started: Feb 15 2017, 09:26 PM (1,148 Views)
Wyvax
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It looks to have a nasty maw to begin with. Why it would even need the venom is beyond me, though it probably worked similarly to Komodos in its utilization.
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Carnoferox
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Wyvax
Feb 20 2017, 06:13 PM
It looks to have a nasty maw to begin with. Why it would even need the venom is beyond me, though it probably worked similarly to Komodos in its utilization.
Euchambersia was fairly small, and probably had to take down larger prey like dicynodonts. Venom would have come in handy.
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zergthe
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So far, my guess is it's definitely, on average, not as long as a meter. So yes, venom to take down the larger dicynodonts would certainly be handy. Looks like BBC got something right.
What are your opinions? Should I scrap the Inostrancevia-Euchambersia proportion on the other page? It seems to me to be a little too large of an estimate.
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I have decided to keep the Inostrancevia-Euchambersia proportion, and I am adding a Lycosuchus-Euchambersia proportion as well. I set up a proportion, and ended with the result of 60.50cm body length.

Proportion and Result: 23cm/120=11.6cm/x, x=60.5cm
All together:
Estimate 1: 110.84cm body length
Estimate 2: 38.67cm body length
Estimate 3: 69.60cm body length
Estimate 4: 69.60cm body length
Estimate 5: 47.98cm body length
Estimate 6: 60.50cm body length

While I will update it, for now these are my results:
Range: 72.17cm
Average: 66.2cm.

Conclusions (still kinda a work in progress):
I believe that the estimated body length of 110.84cm is the general area of maximum, and 38.67cm as the general area of minimum. The most likely average body length is 66.2cm.
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