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Bite force of sauropods?; How hard do you think can sauropods bite?
Topic Started: May 2 2013, 03:47 AM (4,930 Views)
SpinoInWonderland
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How hard, do you think, sauropods can bite?

Can they reach surprisingly high bite forces, for the largest sauropods at least? Or are they wayyy low?

Can a large sauropod hypothetically break someone's arm with it's bite?


If you ask me, I think the very largest of sauropods, like Amphicoelias fragillimus, can bite with a force comparable to hyenas, and that creatures like Europasaurus have bite forces comparable to that of a human child...

Hypothesize and speculate!
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Thalassophoneus
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As the should be able to bite of tree branches, sauropods must have had very strong jaws. Maybe much stronger than those of a dog. However they were not as strong as the jaws of some theropods.
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FishFossil
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I don't know that they would have had to bite off branches, definitely strip them though, which could potentially take some decent muscle strength. I can see a range of anywhere between 180 kg to up to 1000 or possibly even 1500, depending on the sauropod.
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It depends off course on the size of the skull. Mamenchisaurus for example had a very small skull on the edge of this huge neck. Amphicoelias must have had a very large skull, possibly equal or larger to that of a Tyrannosaurus.
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Edited by Thalassophoneus, Jun 20 2015, 12:18 AM.
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Ceratodromeus
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Sauropods probably weren't biting entire branches off of trees- they had dentition for stripping the vegitation off of those branches, though.

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Jun 20 2015, 12:17 AM
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Ceratodromeus
Jun 20 2015, 04:12 AM
Sauropods probably weren't biting entire branches off of trees- they had dentition for stripping the vegitation off of those branches, though.

My thoughts exactly ;)
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Why is my signature doing this? And why does it have problems posting? iaiaiaiaia!!! iaiaouia!
Do you have tourette's or something?
No. I had to write something cause it had problems posting. I didn't know what to write.
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Ceratodromeus
Jun 20 2015, 04:12 AM
Sauropods probably weren't biting entire branches off of trees- they had dentition for stripping the vegitation off of those branches, though.

Well, Brachiosaurids might have nipped off thinner branches, if anything, we know they fed vastly differently than did Diplodocids.
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Hmm?
Both have similar dentition, designed to strip foliage from plants.
If you're speaking of feeding ecology, from what I know, Brachiosaurus was a tree top grazer, and diplodocus was a low browser. Innthisnway, yes, they are indeed different.
Regardless, I don't believe saying the way in which they fed was "vastly different" has any real justification.
Edited by Ceratodromeus, Jul 21 2015, 05:49 PM.
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Jaws
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magyarosaurus had a bite force similar to a 12 year old

amphicoelias's bite was similar to a hippo

all depends on size
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Trex526
Sep 29 2015, 09:48 AM
magyarosaurus had a bite force similar to a 12 year old

amphicoelias's bite was similar to a hippo

all depends on size
where in the world did you get that from?

I swear, half the stuff people say about dinosaurs isn't even educated guessing, its just entirely making up facts on the spot.
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i based it on diplodocus
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