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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,431 Views)
Yutyrannus the second
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To witch modern country the climate in Yixian is comperable?
And which Formations had similar climates to Yixian?
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Furka
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Incinerox
Jan 10 2015, 03:14 PM
Diabloceratops
Jan 10 2015, 02:29 PM
Could titanosaurs "neck" with each other like giraffes? If not what was their way of fighting for a mate?
They could not "neck" like giraffes. Giraffe skulls are EXTREMELY robust. Sauropod heads, on the other hand, were as light as they could possibly be.

What they DID, no one knows.
IMO it's possible size alone could have solved everything.
Think about it, sauropods became capable of breeding pretty early in their life, so there would have been lots of breeding animals, with plenty of size differences. And of course, it would be the biggest ones that get the females.
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Yutyrannus the second
Jan 11 2015, 09:08 AM
To witch modern country the climate in Yixian is comperable?
And which Formations had similar climates to Yixian?
PROBABLY the South Island of NZ.

The Cretaceous was still comparatively warm, but for its time, Yixian was the coldest place on Earth. Colder than the South Pole woulda been.
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kepperbob
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Could some species of spinosaurids have eaten ammonites
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Incinerox
Jan 11 2015, 01:13 PM
Yutyrannus the second
Jan 11 2015, 09:08 AM
To witch modern country the climate in Yixian is comperable?
And which Formations had similar climates to Yixian?
PROBABLY the South Island of NZ.

The Cretaceous was still comparatively warm, but for its time, Yixian was the coldest place on Earth. Colder than the South Pole woulda been.
Okay, thank you ^^

Which Formations (noz just mesozoic) had a similar temperature?
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

kepperbob
Jan 11 2015, 01:20 PM
Could some species of spinosaurids have eaten ammonites
its possible, if ammonites were living in shallow coastal waters or brackish water
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Sir Kingsley of Pangea
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kepperbob
Jan 11 2015, 01:20 PM
Could some species of spinosaurids have eaten ammonites
I doubt it, their teeth weren't suited for crunching shells.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

not as a staple food, but if it stumbled across one I doubt it would just leave it
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Sir Kingsley of Pangea
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Would it slurp it out or something? Because it would be hard to get those things out of their shells.
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It doesn't have to remove the shell.
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It could have just pulled out as much flesh as it could, or maybe even smashed it on rocks.
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Just because it had long and slender jaws doesn't mean it couldn't break open stuff. It was still a 50foot long, 20 ton (YES, TWENTY TONS) animal. It was large enough to pierce through and crack open a modest sized ammonite if it encountered one, surely.
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Well he asked a generic spinosaurid, not Spino itself ;)
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Bigger baryonychines are still 10-12 meters long...

If not, they can just pull the flesh off the shells...
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They've also got hands and feet, and the ground, and trees, and gravity etc. so they DO have options if they know how to use them. However, I don't think ammonites woulda been a COMMON food item for spinosaurids, especially baryonychines given their conflicting habitats. But if an ammonite washed up on the beach and was still reasonably fresh, it's fair game.
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