Huaxiaosaurus

DinoFights

NoobMember0 XPSep-13-2013 7:15 PMTo kill some time while we wait for my next fight (about 40% done with wedding planning, but I'm also booking and working on something for the honeymoon. Can't post the surprise here in case my future wife reads this for some reason) I decided to post about my dinosaur of interest at the moment: Huaxiaosaurus. It measures 17 meters at least, though some mounts indicate it reached 19 or even 22 meters! An animal that enormous would weigh well over 25 tonnes. I and many others theorize it represents the adult form of Shantungosaurus. They both hail from Asia, living at the same time as Tarbosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus, Protoceratops, Velociraptor, Oviraptor, Deinocheirus, Therizinosaurus, Gigantoraptor and many other oddities. Surely an animal of such a hulking size would have no predators, unless Tarbosaurus hunted in packs or the "dromaeosaur Deinocheirus" theory is true. This giant dwarfs even the largest tyrannosaur, as seen by this [img]http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/331/5/b/a_tyrannosaur__s_worst_nightmare_by_hodarinundu-d4hjd3d.jpg[/img] a drawing by [url=http://hodarinundu.deviantart.com/]Hodarinundu[/url] on deviantART. What are your thoughts on Huaxiaosaurus? Is it Shantungosaurus? Could it beat Tyrannosaurus? Spinosaurus? Giganotosaurus? Could it survive in the world of today? If so, where?

Deltadromeus

NoobMember0 XPSep-13-2013 7:43 PMBeats all large theropods except a small pack of Giganotosaurus. Its its own species. Would die today. Not enough food for it to live, and would destroy the amazon

DinoFights

NoobMember0 XPSep-13-2013 8:02 PMI think it could survive, assuming it was in a place where people couldn't kill it. If it lived in unexplored areas of, say, the democratic republic Congo, it would do okay (assuming it could eat the plants there). But I agree with you, no theropods could take it 1 on 1.

Rex Fan 684

NoobMember0 XPSep-13-2013 8:27 PMIf you've seen the page I gave this dinosaur on my site, then you know I estimate it to be smaller than most. That said, I do agree that it was a massive dinosaur. One on one, a large theropod could take it down, but not easily. Give that theropod some backup, I think they could do it. Not sure about it surviving today though. The environment is pretty different, but who knows.

DinoFights

NoobMember0 XPSep-13-2013 10:29 PMI vastly disagree with your estimates, obviously. I don't see how an animal known from fairly complete remains could be so small in your book.

Gigadino

NoobMember2 XPSep-14-2013 7:48 AMThe chinese mounted is horribly inaccurate. the overall animal is likely smaller, rough to 17 m long.