Talk:Carcharodontosaurus

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I took a photo of a cast of a Carchadontosaurus skull. I'll probably end up putting it up... --Madchester 21:13, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Carcharodontosaurus was discovered before Sereno discovered it. It was a partial skeleton in the early twenties, I believe. (Patrick Marks) Battrarules.

From 40 feet long and 20 feet tall to 50 feet long and 25 feet... what?

One or more people are constantly changing the length in the paleobox and the text from "nearly as large as T. rex" to "bigger than T. rex". This is especially funny since they never bother to change the *source* that follows each of these statements, and apparnetly don't bother clicking on it. Why they think Carcharodontosaurus is 50ft long is beyond me, the only source they care about appears to be the voices in their head.Dinoguy2 22:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

How much taller is Spinosaurus than Carcharodontosaurus?

I can't find a reference for hip height in Carcharodontosaurus, but based on Allosaurus, I'd *guess* Carchar would be about 18ft high. All these giant carnivores were probably about the same height, since they were usually more long than tall. A good estimate for the total height of t. rex, Spinosaurus, Carchar, Giganotosaurus, etc would all be 16-20 ft.Dinoguy2 00:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I thought carcharodontosaurus was bigger than T-Rex.

Nope. They originally thought that when Sereno found his new specimens, but further comparisons showed it was smaller. In fact, 40 ft and 4 tons is actually being generous, it was more like 37 ft and 3-3.5 tons.Dinoguy2 21:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)That's small compared to most large theripods 360man

That is contradicted by the size comparison of the largest thereipods in one of the pictures. 122.105.217.71 (talk) 09:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

You may notice that post is from two years ago... I also made the size chart you mentioned. Carch used to be smaller in it but new specimens have shown that yep, it got that big ;) Dinoguy2 (talk) 12:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image

What do people think of the image of Charcharodontosaurus with (what appear to be) protofeathers? Personally, I think such an extensive covering unlikely in a multi-ton carnosaur, and it isn't really supported by phylogenetic bracketing either; but I'd like to other people's opinions before doing anything like removing or replacing it. John.Conway 14:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Heck, why not? Good and thought provoking (would be better to have a feathered T rexas much closer to avians though..)Cas Liber 06:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the inclusion. I don't think there's any solid data concerning whether it had such feathers or not, but if these animals are more closely related to birds than to reptiles, I don't see why it's not a possibility. It also helps break the stereotype that dinosaurs were reptiles. 67.76.183.192 23:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

All known carnosaur skin impressions (and there are a few, mostly from Allosaurus) show scales. There's no reason at present to suppose that Carcharodontosaurus had feathers. Scales are much more likely.Dinoguy2 03:08, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Better picture please

Can someone put a better picture than the other one becasue not only is it crappey looking but is kind of coused false information showing Carcon and Deltadrormes with featers even these animals were not related to the colurasaurs 360man

I don't have a better pic to provide, but it does violate the project image rules for accuracy, so I'll remove it. Dinoguy2 09:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I've requested a new image on the image requests page. Firsfron of Ronchester 17:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)