User talk:Dinotitan

Hi

I'm a fellow paleogeek and just want to welcome yout to Wikipedia since I haven't seen you around before. Welcome! :D Abyssal (talk) 16:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the warm welcome! Sorry, but I JUST found this comment. Look, I even learned how to have my name be auto matically inserted by using four ~'s!.Dinotitan (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Talk pages

Hello, Dinotitan;

When commenting on a talk page, please make your comments separately from others, instead of including them in the same sentence you are commenting on (this makes it confusing to follow a discussion). If you place four tildes ~~~~ at the end of your comment, they will automatically convert to a signature that includes your page and the time (I have these tildes in nowiki text so they don't convert here). J. Spencer (talk) 23:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not the best at such things. I will see if I can't get it here.Dinotitan (talk) 18:13, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Ha! I got it! Thank you J. Spencer.Dinotitan (talk) 18:14, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you must sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 18:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

RE: Scale Chart Question

"To Spinodontosaurus) I that under the pic on your profile (regarding theropod sizes)you put Spinosaurus as being 18 meters long. I wouldn't have a question about that, but when I figured that a meter is 3.3ft, I found that you're saying that spinosaurus is 62.7ft long. You also put Deinocheirius at 15m (49.5ft), Carcharodotosaurus at 14m (46.2ft), and Deltadromeus also at 14m, and both Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus at a mere 13m (42.9). ???????????? Care to explain"

Its been 2 years since I posted that you see, and is based on some old data and even rumours from a forum I used. 18m (59ft) is the maximum estimate for Spinosaurus (Dal Sasso 2005, though I belive scaling linearly from Baryonyx yields 17.4m, and 17m itself is the figure I prefer to throw around now). When trying to convert meters into feet, I simply type into google: "X meters in feet", works for anything basically.

The 15m Deinocheirus was again the forum thing, based on a users scaling up from a smaller relative (dont recall which). This says 10m and 2t. Given that it is from Greg Paul, in 2010 at that, it is probably right (or closer to it than 15m, at least).

The 14m Carcharodontosaurus was based on this claiming C. iguidensis had a skull 1.75m long (vs 1.6m long in C. saharicus), which would give it a length of 14m based on the 12.8m C. sharicus on Mickey Mortimer's Theropod Database Carcharodontosaurus entry.

The Sue specimen of Tyrannosaurus (FMNH PR2081) was measured at 12.8m, no doubts about that one. UCP 118742 seems to be about the same size as Sue, as does MOR 980 (Rigby Rex), UCMP 118742 may have had a touch more growing to do. MOR 008 has a longer skull than Sue, but individual bones in it vary between being longer or shorter, and may be smaller than Sue if you use Stan as a guide anyway.

As for Giganotosaurus 13m was the forum again, but read its wiki page, it gives a reference for 12.2m (same ref as Mortimer's database uses) for the holotype. The larger fragmentary skull would thus be 13.2m, though a user on the forum I mentioned earlier (the user who did the Deinocheirus estimate) posted a link some time ago stating that the larger animal may not be as much as 8% larger.

(talk) 15:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC) Not saying im 100% right, but there you go, sorry for the late reply by the way. Lets see if I got the coding and such right after all this time ^^ Spinodontosaurus (talk) 20:52, 29 October 2011(UTC)

No need to apologize. Just curious. :) Dinotitan