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| Bite force of sauropods?; How hard do you think can sauropods bite? | |
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| SpinoInWonderland | May 2 2013, 03:47 AM Post #1 |
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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 | Jun 19 2015, 05:26 PM Post #31 |
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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 | Jun 19 2015, 11:15 PM Post #32 |
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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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| Thalassophoneus | Jun 20 2015, 12:17 AM Post #33 |
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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. Why is my signature doing this? And why does it have problems posting? iaiaiaiaia!!! iaiaouia! Edited by Thalassophoneus, Jun 20 2015, 12:18 AM.
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| Ceratodromeus | Jun 20 2015, 04:12 AM Post #34 |
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Aspiring herpetologist
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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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| Spartan | Jun 20 2015, 04:16 AM Post #35 |
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Kleptoparasite
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Do you have tourette's or something? |
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| FishFossil | Jun 20 2015, 04:33 AM Post #36 |
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My thoughts exactly
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| Thalassophoneus | Jun 20 2015, 04:54 AM Post #37 |
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No. I had to write something cause it had problems posting. I didn't know what to write. |
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| DinosaurFan95 | Jun 21 2015, 10:22 PM Post #38 |
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Well, Brachiosaurids might have nipped off thinner branches, if anything, we know they fed vastly differently than did Diplodocids. |
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| Ceratodromeus | Jul 21 2015, 05:45 PM Post #39 |
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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 | Sep 29 2015, 09:48 AM Post #40 |
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Heterotrophic Organism
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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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| Grimace | Sep 29 2015, 10:03 AM Post #41 |
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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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| Jaws | Sep 29 2015, 12:14 PM Post #42 |
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i based it on diplodocus |
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