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Torvosaurus vs Edmontonia
Topic Started: Sep 13 2012, 08:38 AM (4,632 Views)
Vodmeister
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Torvosaurus
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Torvosaurus was a large predator that walked on two powerful legs, had a strong, and S-shaped neck. It had a massive tail, a bulky body, and heavy bones. Its arms were short and it had sharp claws. Torvosaurus was up to 33-40 ft (10-12 m) long and 8 ft (2.5 m) tall at the hips. It weighed up to 3 tonnes. Torvosaurus and Allosaurus were similar, but there were quite a few differences between the two genera. For example, they had very different vertebrae, and the limbs (especially the arms) of Torvosaurus were more robust than those of Allosaurus.
Torvosaurus was a huge carnivore, a meat eater equipped with sharp, pointed teeth in large, powerful jaws - it was the biggest meat-eater in its habitat. This theropod also had long, sharp clawed hands, but its arms were a bit larger than those of T. rex. Torvosaurus probably ate large, plant-eating dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus and sauropods.
Torvosaurus was a large, fierce predator that could kill medium-sized sauropods (or sick or injured large sauropods like Apatosaurus) and many others of its contemporaries. Torvosaurus may also have been a scavenger.

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Edmontonia was an armoured dinosaur, a part of the nodosaur family from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation), the unit of rock it was found in.
Edmontonia was bulky and tank-like at roughly 6.6 m (22 ft) long and 2 m (6 ft) high. It had small, ridged bony plates on its back and head and many sharp spikes along its back and tail. The four largest spikes jutted out from the shoulders on each side, two of which were split into subspines in some specimens. Its skull had a pear-like shape when viewed from above. It weighed about 3.2 - 3.5 tonnes.
The large spikes were probably used between males in contests of strength to defend territory or gain mates. The spikes would also have been useful for intimidating predators or rival males, protection, or for self-defense against animals in its size-range. To protect itself from much larger predators than itself, an Edmontonia might have crouched down on the ground to minimize the possibility of attack to its defenseless underbelly.
Edited by Vodmeister, Sep 13 2012, 08:43 AM.
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SpinoInWonderland
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Nov 22 2012, 10:36 PM
Every source that I've been on says Tyrannosaurus has the strongest recorded bite of any terrestrial animal alive or extinct
Those are fallacious sources, saying that Tyrannosaurus had the strongest bite of all terrestrial animals that ever lived is a fallacy, one proven wrong by Deinosuchus and Purussaurus, and possibly Torvosaurus and Edmarka. The paper that TheROC has states that megalosauroids have a greater mechanical advantage than tyrannosauroids in their skulls when it comes to biting...
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Nov 22 2012, 10:58 PM
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Nov 22 2012, 10:36 PM
Every source that I've been on says Tyrannosaurus has the strongest recorded bite of any terrestrial animal alive or extinct
Those are fallacious sources, saying that Tyrannosaurus had the strongest bite of all terrestrial animals that ever lived is a fallacy, one proven wrong by Deinosuchus and Purussaurus, and possibly Torvosaurus and Edmarka. The paper that TheROC has states that megalosauroids have a greater mechanical advantage than tyrannosauroids in their skulls when it comes to biting...
Crocodiles are amphibious creatures and I'm not sure about megalosaurids. TheROC has yet to give me the link.
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brolyeuphyfusion
Nov 22 2012, 10:58 PM
Assassin
Nov 22 2012, 10:36 PM
Every source that I've been on says Tyrannosaurus has the strongest recorded bite of any terrestrial animal alive or extinct
Those are fallacious sources, saying that Tyrannosaurus had the strongest bite of all terrestrial animals that ever lived is a fallacy, one proven wrong by Deinosuchus and Purussaurus, and possibly Torvosaurus and Edmarka. The paper that TheROC has states that megalosauroids have a greater mechanical advantage than tyrannosauroids in their skulls when it comes to biting...
Crocodiles are amphibious creatures and I'm not sure about megalosaurids. TheROC has yet to give me the link.
Amphibious creatures also count as terrestrial ones...
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In that case, then it's definetely Deinosuchus or Purussaurus. When it came to strongest bite of all animals period, I think it was Megalodon.
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or livyatan, or a large pliosaur. sharks are slicers, they don´t need a particularly strong bite. if megalodon is carcharodontosaurus livyatan is T. rex (a bit oversimplyfied, yes).

T. rex having the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal is sensationalistic BS. There are no estimates for torvosaurus or edmarka, but both have great size, huge and robust skulls and a good mechanical advantage-all this is pointing out to a really strong bite and I don´t understand why many people seem to think it is that ridiculous to assume it would haver rivaled T. rex. Deinosuchus was recently proven to have a (far) stronger bite than T. rex, and basing on the crocodile regressions from the paper purrussaurus has as well.
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Torvosaurus should be able to crush armor with its powerful jaws. With greater speed and agility, as well as size, it could dodge the attacks of the nodosaur until it could either flip it over or bite its head.
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torvosaurus should win since it has a good size advantage.
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torvosaurus has a nice size advantage so its wins also edmontonia has no real defences
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Wasn't the 12 meter European Torvosaurus proven to be wrong?
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It would still have the size advantage (using Seebacher's weight for Nodosaurus, I get ~1,6 t for Edmontonia) and I think the Torvosaurus here was anyway supposed to be roughly 10 m long.
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Wasn't the 12 meter European Torvosaurus proven to be wrong?
the american torvosaurus is estimated to be 9-11 metres in length
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Edmonto can pull this off with medium hard difficulty. Stronger than what many think.
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