Talk:Lurdusaurus

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- Contemporaneous dinosaurs -

Lurdusaurus was contemporaenous with the bizarre large theropod Suchomimus, which some believe to be synonymous with the slightly earlier Baryonyx from England, and with the sympatric Ouranosaurus, notable for its tall-spined vertebrae. The remains of an as-yet unnamed allosauroid theropod have also been found in the Aptian of Niger. Other contemporaneous dinosaurs (not known from the same location as Lurdusaurus) include the large allosauroid theropod Acrocanthosaurus, known to have had tall-spined vertebrae, the basal iguanodont Tenontosaurus, the dromaeosaurid Deinonychus and the large nodosaurid ankylosaur Sauropelta, all from North America, the basal iguanodont Muttaburrasaurus, the large-eyed basal ornithopod Leaellynasaura and a possible genus of allosauroid known only from an astragalus, all from Australia, and yet another basal iguanodont, Probactrosaurus, the primitive ceratopsian Psittacosaurus and the poorly known and taxonomically problematic large theropod Chilantaisaurus, all from East Asia.

-- Doesn't seem appropriate to include this list of various other dinosaurs in the article, especially considering that many of these aren't even from same area as Lurdusaurus. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 06:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a good point. Probably we can do better than this; I like the suggestion of adding fauna which Lurdusaurus would actually have interacted with.  Firsfron of Ronchester  08:32, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * That, specifically, seems reasonable to me. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 18:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Stuff like that is usually put into a paleoecology section, like here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertosaurus#Paleoecology FunkMonk (talk) 18:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Stuff
The first part says its shorter than Spinosaurus but a similar mass (6t). But to my reconing spino was 9t (mabye more if the hump theory is correct). Spinodontosaurus (talk) 21:41, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


 * "Taquet originally estimated a length of 30 ft (9m), 40% shorter than Spinosaurus, the longest carnivorous dinosaur known to date, but probably with around the same mass, i.c 5.5 tonnes."
 * I do not recall that at any time there was such a low figure for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Also, the "40% shorter" seems highly doubtful, and the whole comparison seems out of place. 188.23.157.152 (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2013 (UTC)