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Ekrixinatosaurus novasi v Suchomimus tenerensis
Topic Started: Aug 25 2012, 10:47 PM (8,950 Views)
Taipan
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Ekrixinatosaurus novasi
Ekrixinatosaurus (Explosion-Born Reptile) is a genus of dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was a theropod believed to be one of the abelisaurs. Its fossils have been found in Argentina. The type species, Ekrixinatosaurus novasi, was first described in 2004 by Argentinian paleontologist Jorge Calvo, and Chilean paleontologists David Rubilar-Rogers and Karen Moreno. Ekrixinatosaurus is perhaps the largest abelisaurid known to date, estimated as 10 to 11 metres (33 to 36 ft) long. Most recently, a 2016 study again found Ekrixinatosaurus novasi to be smaller (7.4 m) than Carnotaurus (7.8 m). It was also particularly robust and had a relatively large head, suggesting that it was a powerful predator or scavenger, able to scare other predators away from their kills.

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Suchomimus tenerensis
Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") is a genus of large spinosaurid dinosaur with a crocodile-like mouth that lived between 121–112 million years ago, during the late Aptian stage of the Cretaceous period in Africa. Unlike most giant theropods, Suchomimus had a very long, low snout and narrow jaws studded with some 100 teeth, not very sharp and curving slightly backward. The tip of the snout was enlarged and carried a "rosette" of longer teeth. The animal is reminiscent of crocodilians that eat mainly fish, such as the living gharial, a type of large crocodile with a very long, slim snout, from the region of India. Suchomimus also had a tall extension of its vertebrae which may have held up some kind of low flap, ridge or sail of skin, as seen in much more exaggerated form in Spinosaurus. The length of the type specimen of Suchomimus, a subadult, was initially estimated at 10.3–11 m (34–36 ft). Its weight was estimated at between 2.7 and 5.2 tonnes (2.7 and 5.1 long tons; 3.0 and 5.7 short tons). In 2010, Gregory S. Paul gave lower estimations of 9.5 metres and 2.5 tonnes. The overall impression is of a massive and powerful creature that ate fish and presumably other sorts of meat (carrion, if naught else) more than 100 million years ago, when the Sahara was a lush, swampy habitat.

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Suchomimus vs Ekrixinatosaurus

Edited by Taipan, Feb 26 2018, 03:34 PM.
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thesporerex
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suchomimus wins ekrixinatosaurus was only 9 metres long 11 metre ekrixinatosaurus is exagerated
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Carcharadon
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I guess baryonyx would have been a better match.
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I say Ekrixinatosaurus wins this, it was built for fighting large prey, were as Suchomimus was built to take advantage of fishing. I'm not saying that Suchomimus couldn't take other prey types just that its design is more geared to fishing.
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Makaveli7
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11 Meter Ekrixinatosaurus would have a strength, weight and bite force advantage over an 11 meter Suchomimus and could win fairly easily but with an adult it has a harder time. I still say Ekrixinatosaurus takes this 70% of the time.
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Carcharadon
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And you do realize ekrixinatosaurus was NOT 11 m? It was only up to 9 m.
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Makaveli7
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In that case Suchomimus wins most of the time.
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Hatzegopteryx
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Ekrixinatosaurus is too small, mismatch
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Jul 28 2013, 12:50 AM
I guess baryonyx would have been a better match.
I know this is an old post, but even Baryonyx would win very often. he known specimen is already larger, and immature. I can easily see an adult reaching 10 metres, although that's very speculative; However, if it did, it would be ~3 tons.
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not speculative at all, consdering Hartman’s suba-adult is already ~10m long.
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Hatzegopteryx
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I heard the known specimen is ~9.5 metres, which is also ~2.5 tons. Scaling isometrically from that specimen a 10 metre long Baryonyx should be ~3 tons.
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TheMechaBaryonyx789
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TheMechaBaryonyx789
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Anyways Suchomimus dominates, the Spinosaurid is 4 tons in weight while the Abelisaurid hardly exceeded 1 ton?
Edited by TheMechaBaryonyx789, Jan 30 2014, 05:15 AM.
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Hatzegopteryx
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It wasn't even 2 tons if I am not mistaken.
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TheMechaBaryonyx789
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Jan 30 2014, 01:43 AM
It wasn't even 2 tons if I am not mistaken.
Oh
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blaze
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Hartman gives it a longer tail than past reconstructions, that's it, he doesn't reconstruct an animal 5% larger, in fact if he had given it a tail as proportionally long as his Suchomimus and Spinosaurus (50-50.5% of total length), his Baryonyx will only be 9.3m.
Edited by blaze, Jan 30 2014, 02:33 AM.
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