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| African Lion v Baurusuchus | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 10 2012, 10:42 PM (13,332 Views) | |
| Taipan | Apr 10 2012, 10:42 PM Post #1 |
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African Lion - Panthera leo The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. The African lion is a very large cat, with males weighing between 330 and 550 pounds and females weighing between 260 and 400 pounds. It is 8 to 10 feet long, not including the tail. Its most famous feature is its mane, which only male lions have. The mane is a yellow color when the lion is young and darkens with age. Eventually, the mane will be dark brown. The body of the African lion is well suited for hunting. It is very muscular, with back legs designed for pouncing and front legs made for grabbing and knocking down prey. It also has very strong jaws that enable it to eat the large prey that it hunts. ![]() Baurusuchus pachechoi Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It was a terrestrial predator and scavenger, about 3.5 to 4 meters long. Baurusuchus lived during the Turonian to Santonian stages (90-83.5 million years ago) of the Late Cretaceous Period, in Adamantina Formation, Brazil. It gets its name from the Brazilian Bauru Group ("Bauru crocodile"). It was related to the earlier-named Cynodontosuchus rothi, which was smaller, with weaker dentition (Bonaparte, 1996). The three species are B. pachechoi (Price, 1945), B. salgadoensis (Carvalho et al., 2005) (named after General Salgado County in São Paulo, Brazil) and B. albertoi (Nascimento & Zaher, 2010) (named after Dr. Alberto Barbosa de Carvalho, Brazilian paleontologist). Its relatives include the similarly-sized Stratiotosuchus from the Adamantina Formation, and Pabweshi, from the Pakistani Pab Formation. Prehistoric crocodiles weren't necessarily restricted to river environments; the fact is that these ancient reptiles could be every bit as diverse as their dinosaur cousins when it came to their habitats and lifestyles. Baurusuchus is an excellent example; this South American crocodile, which lived during the middle-to-late Cretaceous period, possessed long, dog-like legs and a heavy, powerful skull with the nostrils placed on the end, indications that it actively prowled the early pampas rather than snapping at prey from bodies of water. By the way, the similarity of Baurusuchus to another land-dwelling crocodile from Pakistan is further proof that the Indian subcontinent was once joined to the giant southern continent of Gondwana. Size and Weight: About 12 feet long and 500 pounds _______________________________________________________________________________________
Edited by Taipan, Jul 11 2017, 12:26 PM.
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| populator135 | Apr 10 2012, 11:55 PM Post #2 |
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Heterotrophic Organism
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I give it to the lion do to it's ability to effectively use it's forelimbs. |
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| Eotyrannus | Apr 11 2012, 03:26 AM Post #3 |
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I'll probably go for Baurusuchus here. It has a more diversely-usable bite, making up for lesser grappling skills, and has a tail to anchor more powerful back leg muscles on. It was able to compete with predators such as Carnotaurus, too, and it's a land crocodile. Also, that picture of Baurusuchus might be a little skinny. ![]() A picture of a nice muscular Baurusuchus strutting off, away from some large dromeosaurs, being the BAMF he is. By contrast, the lion has a bite specialised to cut off the windpipe. Looking further, it has the same sort of power in the back legs as Bauru here. Unlike Bauru, it doesn't have scutes, or competition with a larger, lone predator. Baurusuchus wins due to more diverse bite and armour. |
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| BigDawg95 | Apr 11 2012, 09:48 AM Post #4 |
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Gonna go with the reptile here. I'm pretty sure it could stand on two legs which would give it an advantage. Yes the lion could grapple it but it would take alot to bring the reptile down. |
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| FireEel | Apr 11 2012, 11:50 AM Post #5 |
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What's the approx weight of a 4m Baurusuchus? |
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| Temnospondyl | Apr 11 2012, 06:29 PM Post #6 |
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Stegocephalia specialist.
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The reptile wins 95% |
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| Carcharadon | Sep 7 2012, 10:26 AM Post #7 |
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Shark Toothed Reptile
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Baurusuchus wins, it's got armor and a stronger bite, it can kill the lion by clamping those jaws on its neck
Edited by Carcharadon, Aug 26 2013, 11:27 AM.
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 10:43 AM Post #8 |
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Drom King
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You gotta be a BAMF to take a drom packs kill
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| Admantus | Sep 7 2012, 11:20 AM Post #9 |
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Seeing how much of a fucking BAMF the croc is, I vote for it. |
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| Fragillimus335 | Sep 7 2012, 11:32 AM Post #10 |
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So basically an armored, 500 pound, dinosaur headed, land croc, vs a Lino. Mega-croc wins 80% of the time.![]() |
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| 221Extra | Sep 7 2012, 12:47 PM Post #11 |
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Deny, deny, deny.
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If your scale is correct then I can't see how the Lion loses this. Edited by 221Extra, Sep 7 2012, 12:48 PM.
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| Fragillimus335 | Sep 7 2012, 12:55 PM Post #12 |
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What? The lion can't even bite this thing effectively, meanwhile the croc's skull is big enough to engulf the Lion's entire head and neck. |
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| 221Extra | Sep 7 2012, 01:13 PM Post #13 |
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Deny, deny, deny.
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The Lion can use it's superior agility to mount this Croc & deliver the death bite, it seems to me like most of you are voting for this Croc because it looks cool. |
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| Fragillimus335 | Sep 7 2012, 01:43 PM Post #14 |
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Omnivore
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Deliver the "death" bite? Sine when do lions do that? And it would have quite a bit of trouble going through all that neck armor.
Edited by Fragillimus335, Sep 7 2012, 01:43 PM.
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| 221Extra | Sep 7 2012, 01:51 PM Post #15 |
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Deny, deny, deny.
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The armor isn't impenetrable:![]() And how do you think Lions kill their prey?...with a damn death bite! (keep in mind I don't mean instant death.) In fact I can see the Lion killing this Croc in a similar fashion to Malachi the Tigress, biting through the back of the head. |
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