Tyrannotitan: One Of The Largest Known Theropod Dinosaurs
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Tyrannotitan was among the largest carnivorous dinosaurs and a candidate for the largest. Like the more famous mega-predators Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, and Carcharodontosaurus, Tyrannotitan was a member of Carcharodontosauridae, especially the small subgroup Giganotosaurini along with Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus. Tyrannotitan was the oldest giganotosaurine, living in Argentina during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous period between 113.0-100.5 million years ago.
00:00 - Introduction
00:58 - Carcharodontosauridae
01:58 - Skull and Teeth
02:35 - Vertebrae
01:58 - Limbs
03:03- Hunting
04:48 - Pack Hunter?
05:54 - Paleoenvironment
06:15 - The Largest Theropod?
07:56 - Outro
One thing I can say about Tyrannotitan...is that it's got an awesome name.
True that! "Giant Tyrant" sounds so much cooler in Latin, lol 🙂
That name is of mythic proportions.
I can't decide if it should be my son's first, or middle name...
@@Velshard idk
Mapusaurus too
This carcharodontosaurid needs more love
No. Too pompous name, its describers should git bent for trying too hard!
Yes!
They should get more love, they , along with their other cousins the allosaurs ruled longer than any theropod family, and perhaps had the longest reign of any carnivore group ever
@@nickkorkodylas5005
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exact ! i wonted to tell him the same thing !
I think it's interesting that the Carcharodontosauridae group produced so many giant predators. T-Rex and Spinosaurus might be the superstars of the Theropods, but the Carcharodontosaurids like Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, and Tyrannotitan (which has one of the coolest names for a predatory Dinosaur btw) deserve their fair share of the spotlight too.
Don't worry, the Giganotosaurus had its moment in JW3 where it killed a T-rex.
Carcharadontosaurids and their ancestors ruled longer too, tyrannosaurus were only able to evolve to large sizes bc of the carcharodontosaurs extinction. Had they not gone extinct , tyrannosaurs and abelisaurids would have stayed small and never dominated
My fav is charcharodontosaurus
There were many kinds of Tyranosaurids too.
Don't forget acrocanthosaurus the yank tank of the carchs!
"With a name like Tyrannotitan you could be forgiven for thinking that this huge theropod was a tyrannosaurid, " - prehistoric wildlife
That seems to have occurred to everyone but the people who picked the name.
The titanosaur/carcharodontosaur rivalry has to be the most underrated feud in paleontology.
Not only is it between both the biggest herbivores and the biggest carnivores, it's also multi-generational, with different genera from different time periods duking it out. You mentioned Patagotitan & Titanotitan and Argentinosaurus & Mapusaurus, but there was also Andesaurus & Giganotosaurus in between them. The only other time I've seen this kind of generational rivalry was with the tyrannosaurs & ceratopsians (which frankly do it to a way bigger extent and will probably never be topped as _the_ prehistoric rivalry).
It's all really cool stuff, and something that needs to be represented in more paleomedia. So far the most well-known portrayal of it was in Planet Dinosaur, but that's about it.
Tyrannotitan damnit... where's Autocorrect when you need it
There was an episode devoted to this on an episode the Nigel Marvin show Chased by Dinosaurs. But that's the only other example I can think of.
@@OldGreyGryphon Completely forgot about that one, how stupid of me.
Pretty much everything Nigel Marven’s done has been great
@@bendykirby4828 He is a very cool guy. Glad to meet another fan.
I am familiar with this feud. Don't get me wrong, I love the tyrannosaurs, but...
T. Rex should not be the only giant theropod everyone knows, dang it (I mean general population).
If Tyrannotitan practiced flesh grazing, the open wounds left on its prey could have served to attract other Tyrannotitans in the area, similar to the way Komodo dragons congregate on a water buffalo after it's been bitten by one. In that event, it wouldn't really need to form packs to hunt, per say, because the instinctive mobbing behavior would serve much the same effect as individuals dove in to take opportunistic bites as the unlucky sauropod continued to weaken from blood loss and further injury.
Very good point, I haven’t thought of that. This seems like the most likely explanation imo
I think you meant "per se."
Ha.
"When scientists started looking at the stomach contents of dead dinosaurs, they realized most of the theropods, T-Rex et al, had stomachs filled with plant material."
- dr. Robert Carter
@@shootingstarzz6161 Robert Carter? You mean the guy who spent years taking payments from fossil fuel companies in order to publicly deny global warming?
Nice game to kill.. the time. Who bites first? How to bite without anyone knowing?
the whole concept of flesh grazing is terrifying. thank you for making these videos!
I find it really interesting that 3 of the 5 biggest carnivorous dinos were all apart of this family. The only two outliers being the Trex and Spino. I wonder why this family of dinosaurs had to be so much bigger than the others in the rex and spino families. Assuming it's due to the prey they mostly hunted based on the info provided in the vid.
Two reasons, I think.
1. Because of their prey's size.
2. Because tyrannosaurids didn't have enough time to become truly large.
The reason tyrannosaurids even developed was mainly due to the ecological niche of large bodies predators disappearing in the form of allosaurids. Now, allosaurus was a medium sized carnivore that evolved 155 M years ago, while Charcharodontosaurids died out around 95M years ago. That's 60M years.
Tyrannosaurids evolves from 80 M years ago, starting with Lythronax, an animal roughly the size of an Allosaurus. The fact that tyrannosaurids managed to fill the same niche under 14 million years as allosaurids did under 60 is impressive alone, and a testament to their superior body plan, but even then, that's 44 million years worth of advantage.
@@horvathbenedek3596 Ok, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder how much larger tyrannosaurids could have gotten then if they had more time. I'd like to say they'd be largest carnivorous dinosaur.
well to be fair we don't know if there *weren't* other tyrannosaurs that or spinosaurs that reached similar sizes and weren't just outliers, and they just didn't survive in the fossil record or we haven't found specimens yet (though since this is just speculation it doesnt really matter ig)
Could be the area they lived
Didnt Charcaradontosaurus live in Africa?, Wich had more food sources than NorthAmerica at the time
@@Dell-ol6hb yeah, very true too
Just think about it. Could you imagine how awesome it would be to see these animals in the wild? Blows my mind.
Imagine what they would have looked like if they had Albinism.
amazing video quality, so much more informative than books and wikipedia. you truly deserve more attention
I recently saw a study implying Sauropods distribution was noa as widespread as the later bipedal herbivores, being more adapted for tropical hot and wet temperatures. It would be interesting a similar study about these therapods to see if they match that distribution
What is the name of the study?
Considering how close all these species got in terms of size, you could probably assume that they reached the largest size that a carnivorous theropod can reach without putting extreme stress on the bones and muscles, that 5-8 ton, 11-15m range might be the biggest they could biologically get
Yeah most carcharodontosaurids like Tyrannotitan, Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, Carcharodontosaurus , Sauroniops ,Meraxes Gigas all are in 12-13 meters range
Admit it, Tyrannotitan is a really awesome name.
And pronouncable unlike many dino names. Some dino namers should be jailed.
Next-level shrinkwrapping @ 0:50
Tyrannotitan chubutensis :
Specimen- MPEFPV-1157
Height- 3.6m at the hips
Length- 11.7 meters ( 39 ft)
Weight- 7,475 kgs ( 7.5 tonnes)
Bite force- 3.3 tonnes
Era- Early cretaceous South America
I support the idea it usually hunted alone and hunted in groups during times of oppotunity or harshness when prey might be at its scarcest(the second half of the dry season). Even intensly social animals like wolves, do not hunt in packs all year round. They will hunt small prey most the year but in winter or when the oppotunity arrises the pack is summoned. I think therapods could have been quite social at times and reject the seemingly mammalian biased idea that they were incapable of forming lasting social bonds because they were stem birds and had different brains. I think communication was vital to therapod reproduction and thus evolution and this very well might have translated to social behaiours.
I agree. To add to it, something that is often overlooked in the discussion of theropod pack hunting is that Cuban crocodilians (who spend more time on land than most other crocodilians) have been observed engaging in what appears to be true pack hunting. If they can do it, so could the carcharodontosaurid could have as well.
I just don't see dinosaurs being intelligent enough to hunt in organized packs. There are no living birds that do it, and their brains are much larger (compared to body size) and have more complex behaviors. There is evidence of theropods feeding together though.
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Harris's hawk does sometimes hunt in packs. Perhaps more importantly, Cuban crocodiles have also been seen engaging in cooperative hunting while on land. While pack hunting in the expectation rather than the norm in modern archosaurs, their modern representatives do show it was also possible in dinosaurs.
@@KFrost-fx7dt firstly it depends if you belive that social behaviour evolves because of intelligence or nessecity, i believe nessecity because thats how evolution tends to work, the enviroment and factors force the animal to adapt its behaviour, it depends on what you mean by coordinated pack hunting. Lions do not coordinate. They charge in like 6yr olds at a soccer ball. They are as individuals capable of bringing their prey down by grappling. Wild dogs and wolves which hunt the same prey (in africa(wild dogs) and india(wolves)) are much less capable of bringing down large prey as individuals are extremely coordinated. Therapods are lions not wolves.
A key factor that actually defines packing behaviour is if they live and hunt in social groups.
King's skink of Western Australia is a large viviparous skink, it lives in family groups, and lives on windswept areas where burrows are of large demand. The family, complete with grown children will pattol and defend the area around their burrow. And that is a skink with a tiny skink brain, which is tiny in comparison to its body size. Its prey generally consists of smaller animals so sadly we will probably not see them hunting as a family unit. But if those circumstamces arose, yeah i think they would. And bam pack hunting King's skinks.
Adult Specticled caimans in the Orinoco wetland look after large mixed creches of hatchlings. Because half the year most the pools dry up and the young would perish otherwise.
Black vultures are extremely social and extremely territorial and rival groups will often clash. Whilst its not hunting, they are a very social modern therapod that gets into some vicous gang fights( including literally biting and tearing chunks of skin off rivals and eating it). (This is a freat counterpoint to the argument that is often put forwards: 'that we have evidence of cannibalism and interspecies violence in dinosaurian therapods so they can't have been social')
Crocs also have been observed corraling fish, in orcas, dolphins, pinnapeds and whales this is packing behaviour.
Animals adopt sucsessful behaviours. Smarter animals like us can adopt them on the fly, without the need for biological hard-wiring. This includes making friends.
Therapods had to be able to communicate to avoid conflict and especially when breeding(-insert joke about wife biting your head off-). It makes sense for breeding therapods to have a deep bond of trust, simpily because the danger posed by the other party, also based on gestation times and metabolism it is highly likely both parents cared for the eggs(or else they would have been extremely vulnerable( with the current thinking that like crocs and turtles comparatively few dinosaurs made it to breeding age, those that did breed sucessfully would have to have to maximised sucsess(large therapods also seemed to have layed comparatively few eggs when compared to herbivores) . It is entirely likely that some species would pair for life.
So what i am saying is we have a bonding mechanic and communication. Oppotunistic group hunting, as seen with nile crocs etc is entirely possible, actual pack hunting, ie where the group that is hunting is socially bonded is no as unlikely as might be thought. Its less likely than amoung viviparous critters (like marine reptiles who like King's skink were in a pretty rough enviromemt).
Did tyrannotitan hunt in packs? Unlikely, but really could have happened. It most certainly formed groups to hunt because literally everything does if the opportunity is good enough(and an old or sick 30 ton sauropod IS a good enough opportunity.)
Did some species of plesiosaurs, icthyosaus mosasaurs or pliosaurs hunt in packs? Yeah probably. Do they have big ole mammal brains? Nope.
@@KFrost-fx7dt "there are no birds that do it"
Because there are no carnivorous apex predator birds, because mammals arer vastly more successful for the most part. If you want evidence of birds being able to cooperate as a social group... Corvids literally have a family and community structure that is on par with primates. Also, corvids are one of few animals capable of comprehending their own existence, as evidenced by the mirrot self-recognition test. They are more intelligent than dogs, cats, or pigs, ranking just below apes.
Fun facts: Tyrannosaurus are more closely related to Avians (Birds) than to Tyrannotitan
No it was in the middle equally related carnosaurs as to birds, (I have no clue why they change t rex from carnosaur to generally fragile coelurosaurs)
@@toxicdino8676No it wasn't. It's a coelurosaur, meaning it's closer to dinosaurs like Ovirapror, Velociraptor, Deinocheirus, and Therizinosaurus then to Tyrannotitan.
Tyrannosaurus are more closely related to Avians, Maniraptors, Compsognathidae and Megaraptors than to the Tyrannotitan(which is member from the Giganotosaurini Tribe)
@66Traveler99and dromaeosaurids and tyrannosaurids both belong to coelurosaurians while charcharodontosaurids and allosauridea belong to carnosauria
I can imagine a Power Ranger using the Tyrannotitan as a zord. That would be awesome indeed.
I'm sick of being ridiculed for my theory that carcharodontids and tyrannosaurs and the like DID have a use for their small forearms.
Why is it so unreasonable to postulate that they used them to give gifts and open their christmas presents?
I have thought for a while that the reduced forelimbs would still be useful for nest building and other reproduction related purposes
Despite the joke, which is actually quite funny tbh, I don’t think most of them had any actual use for their arms - especially seeing how Carnotaurus’ arms had evolved, it seemed like most of those kinds of animals (Saying ‘Most’ and ‘Those kinds’ because Allosaurus/etc are fullproof examples of them using arms as useful tools) had legitimately no need for arms whatsoever.
Orrr, it could be the small arms were only used to pick there teeth using tree branches. Certainly not useful for fapping...
@@Raptorman0909 :-D
I believe current consensus is that T. Rex was Jewish
You deserve more attention, I really like the simplicity of your videos. They are very Straight forward and I like it, keep up the great work
Thanks for the interesting video. Hoping your channel grows in the future!
Maybe tyrannotitan was more of an ambush predator than the later giganotosaurids, i am not sure about the trends in climate during the Cretaceous, but if south America became more arid and less forested it is the trend I'd expect to see in the family's evolution. That is a hypothesis to explain its less pnematisied bones, more powerful arms(which would have been much more useful as a juvenile or sub adult) and more straighter and less specialisdd teeth. Could just be it was more basal.
It should also be pointed out that therapods with similar teeth are responsible for some frickin deep gouges into considerable sized bones. Trex gets a lot of credit for crushing and chomping bone but the record for bone filled corprolites belongs to an allosaurus from Utah the (brushy basin member of the morrison if i recal correctly) the corprolite was like 1.52m long + dribble and featured big chuncks of bone abd lots of ground up slivers. Like what you'd expect to see if it was essentially sawing bones appart(like how they leave the gouges in the big bones) and ingesting them.
Predation on large sauropods to me is an odd subject. Sauropods are easily the most dangerous animals to have walked the earth.
I think if i were a carcharodontosaurid hunting a sauropod the first thing i would want to do is get it alone at night, in a wooded area so it can't manouver easily then cut those rear legs up to imobilise it and get it bleeding(like wolves hamstringing a musk ox or bison). Then just sit back and wait. Its still extremely dangerous and can crush you like a bug and there is nothing to be gained by pushing the attack till it weakens. And that is even just a sick or old individual.
Awesome video, Thank you so much for all that great info and superb video
So underrated and it’s freaking massive! I saw a skull in person and it’s way bigger than me.
As always really enjoyed your information on the Tyrannotiton. What a formidable beast of its time, especially if it hunted, as you mentioned may have been in groups.
Big thanks.
I really look forward to seeing many more future discoveries from Argentina👍
I like the idea of it having such a foul mouth, similar to a Komodo dragon, that it makes it’s much larger sauropod prey go into shock before devouring its meal.
But it wasn't a coldblooded sprawling legged komodo dragon was it?
You mean venomous?
The interior hippostrata cavity at the back of Tyranititan's upper left skull has similar nerve canals to that of many poisonous snakes, in particular the Lanceheads or vipers of South America. A poisonous bite may be how they were able to bring down large prey such as the Sauropods.
Venomous not poisonous
This is a insightful piece of information thank-you keep the videos coming
I am truly filled with joy I found your channel I subscribed immediately you're going to make it big on UA-cam keep up the good work
Good quality video
You got my sub and respect!
Theropods are so cool and magnificent, I will never stop being in awe of them.
New GDI suggests that Tyrannotitan might actually have been the largest Carcharodontosaurid, at 8 metric tons. While Giganotosaurus paratype is now 7.8 metric tons.
Could you link the source for this?
@@jahjah5329 Source: trust me bro
I don't think there is an actual paper or article about this, but some time ago SIW did GDI on recent Tyrannotitan model, and got 8044kg, which is insane while the animal is only 11.88m. It isn't really biggest Carcharodontosaurid tho, Mapusaurus is still bigger (I mean its 12.5m so there is no doubt) also I think Giganotosaurus might be bigger too?Franoys's reconstruction suggests 12.29m and 7370kg which is quite small but Dan Folkes's holotype skeletal is like 12.57 but there is no mass estimate yet.
@@jacekkkkk1740 Is SIW even that reliable? I personally prefer to go off of Franoys, Dan, and Scott Hartman
@@jahjah5329 well yeah SIW is definitely not the most reliable source
Giga paratype is 9 metric tons
Great video liked and subed keep up the work
I never realized that there were so many different types of Dinosaurs!! No wonder people were not around back then I don’t think they would have survived for very long!!!☠️☠️
How did I discovered this channel only now? THERE ARE DOZENS OF VIDEOS I NEED TO WATCH ASAP
great job improving the voice work, good man! keep at it
FYI That full sized head at 2:16 was modeled by paleo artist Garfield Minott for Paul Sereno in the late nineties using a cast of the skull next to it.
This is a neat video. 4:12
i saw a documentary that explained this same idea about how they possibly hunted. Now i kinda want to go watch that again.
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I approve of this video
Zhe idea that this theropod and giganotosaurus as well as mapusaurus represent a direkt Lineage evolving over a couple of millions years is cool
hey, pretty cool video!
Their big size could be because:
-Their prey such as the large sauropods were humongous
-competition as mapusaurus and giganotosaurus both lived in Argentina around 99 to 90 million years ago. Tyrannotitan lived from 125 to 100 million years ago in Argentina. Carcharodontosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous in Northern Africa and reason why it was so big was also either prey and competition between the infamous spinosaurus.
Spinosaurus was a ichthyophage, both had no competition between each other.
@@brazilpaes spinosaurus also ate other animals and not just mawsonia and onchopristis. Carcharodontosaurus lived in the same time and place
@@itzrowansaur yeah but I'm pretty sure that Spinosaurus would only go after land animals in times of desperate need, and even then usually went for animals comparatively small-to-medium sized. In regards of Carch though, your first postulation as to why the carcharodontosaurids became so big holds water.
Have you heard of niche partitioning by chance? Spino and Carch may have been similar in length and height (weight is a totally different matter), but they adapted to hunt different prey to avoid competition.
@@goji5052 well there is a possibility just saying
@@itzrowansaur there is such a possibility, but the probability is much lower.
Though Carch and Speen probably tried to fuck over the other if they had absolutely no choice (and the winner is quite obvious)
I went to a Patagonia museum in Brisbane and it had Tyrannotitan and it made me happy
Tyrannotitan is huge 13 meters long and weights 10.8 tonnes
Never heard of this beast thank you fellow Dino lover
Underrated boi, with a name like that, you'd think he'd be a close to household name status by now.
Thank you
Tyrannotitan is sooooo underated
I wouldn’t even say underrated, just barely anyone even knows about it.
I just can't get over the fact that Jack Horner thinks that Pachycepholosaurus, Stygimoloch, and Dracorex are the same dinosaur.
They probably are tho
@@jesusramirezromo2037 no they aren't they are part of the same family but DIFFERENT individuals all together.
@@jesusramirezromo2037 no they are not
They're the same critter at different stages of development & why not? No evidence to claim different.
Cool
Nice! And you're right, it is obscure.
You should do a video on the differences between Carcharodontosauridae & Tyrannosauridae!
I had a dream years ago when I was a teen, about a hot humid place, with strange palm tree looking plants, with a reddish almost violet colored sun. A large brontosaur looking dinosaur(much larger than a bronrosaur or even a brachiosaur)! came running out of the trees, terrified running for its life. A pack of huge tyrannosaurus looking things came running after it. (Much larger than a T-rex) They were leaping onto it and clawing and biting it. I was shocked they could jump so high, from the ground straight up to its literal back and spine. I mean this four legged long necked thing was GARGANTUAN Even though these two legged predators were huge themselves, it dwarfed them. Yet it was clearly terrified of this group of them. Yet just one of them was able to rip wounds big enough to pour blood out like a stream!! That's what I remember the most, the blood. So much blood. Blood everywhere. That's how they killed it. Bleeding it to death. I was horrified. Guess that's what I get for asking God desperately to see earth when the dinosaurs were alive. It was not a nice place. So Hot, so humid, couldn't breathe. Everywhere was death, and death was everywhere. I wanted to see, but I wasn't prepared for how hellish the whole place was. Temperature: Horrid. Appearance: Horrid. Inhabitants Worse.
Overall ambiance: Alien Hellscape. Where humans could never flourish. Only subsist in constant terror and squalor. I also saw a T-rex. It was worse. Much more muscular. It's eyes faced forward in a horrible way. Such huge eyes, so malevolent....You knew it was looking at you. It could see you well before you saw it. It would actually fuck with things. Pretending it was accidentally approaching you making you think it wasn't seeing you. It's bite was worse. It didn't bleed anything. It crunched it up one bite was death. Oh God the oceans...No.
P.S..the larger 2 legged predators that bled out the sauropod were yellowish in color.
It always fascinates me how paleontologists/paleo-artists are able to construct a non-generic, plausible-looking dinosaur from little more than a tooth and three vertebrae...
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that pronounces the mighty gigas name like that.
Tyrannotitan is 13 meters long and 7-8 tonnes giant monster 👹
Must be 10 tonnes monster bro
The way you described it eating makes me
think I Dwight from The Office. “I’ve found a way to extract the meat from the horse without having to kill it” 😂
1:18 when Dr Doofinschmitz gets to name a dinosaur.
Bruh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whenever I see these dino videos I just think "hell yea, more content for ARK to choose from" 😂
“Pacifically” instead of “specifically” made this video 10000000% cuter
love this video. traffic from this video has given my channel many thousands of views. 30% of the "traffic source" for a video currently at 13k views. idk why, but I am happy for every bit of it.
Just glad they are not around whn camping today lol, but id love to see them all in nature docs, still alive today,,any cool prehistoric animal
What a name !
I’ve often wondered if any of these “flesh grazing” theropods may have had septic bites, and hunted in a manner not unlike the Komodo dragon lizard.
Unfortunately I guess we will never know.
T-Rex is though to weight up to 9 tons which to technically make it the largest Theropod, because Spinosaurus could weight up to about 6-7 tons
Scotty the T. Rex weighed in at least 10 tons.
@@classicgalactica5879 I know
Man just imagine living with these beast, Iike a massive fast alligator, what a terrifying time it must of been.
Scotty was not 8.8 tons, he was just over 10 tons.
Sue was found out here in South Dakota, if i remember right near the Badlands.
Tyrannotitan was smaller than T-Rex, and even Giganotosaurus was bigger. T-Rex grew 12 meters or more, whilst Tyrannotitan only grew up to 11 metres.
Size is more based off mass then length
@@ArkanumKing Then T.rex had more mass.
Tyrannotitan grew longer at 13 meters and T rex only 12.3 meters
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Tyrannotitan! Quick Attack!
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Flesh grazing is now my favourite term
wait , isn't T.Rex like 2 tons larger than the next largest thropod ? (Giganotosaurus) btw this was not really a question because it is. But some people use length to determine size for whatever reason even tho scientifically heavier means larger/more massive.
It isn't certain. The larger weight of Tyrannosaurs is from comparing the largest known individuals to each other. Tyrannosaurus is known from a lot more specimens than either Giganotosaurus or Tyrannotitan. The estimated weight of the two known Tyrannotitan skeletons is within the average weight of Tyrannosaurus, though that is with a small sample size and incomplete specimens. Without a better sample size and more complete specimens of the large carcharodontosaurids, it is hard to say for sure if Tyrannosaurs was larger, though it does seem more likely.
@@chimerasuchus I agree , there can allways be a specimen we donn't know about thats much larger than any Tyrannosaurus. Tho for now I think it's safe to say the Tyrannosaurus Rex is the largest known theropod since pretty much all of them are a bulkier overall. They also have larger legs and their feet design are quite different than other massive theropods like the middle bone of the foot that connects to the middle toe is like it's crushed between the other two at the top , that reduces the movement of the bones and makes them more stable when the animal walks. This way the foot can carry more weight.
@@chimerasuchus tyrannosaurus is much more massive and robust animal than tyrannotitan.
@@chimerasuchus 0.18 incorrect spino lenght 14,5 meters long, t.rex length 13 meters long, giga lenght 12,2 meters long.
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Please, make a video talking about Oxalaia, and if it is a species of genus Spinosaurus or if it is a different animal
I want one. NOW.
:)
lol
Argentina became a home for very large dinos (argentinosaur, giga and tyranotitan is an example). I wonder why
Tyrannotitan definitely wins an award for having an awesome name 😄. Who cares if it wasn't related to T-rex?
0:58
Yeah i know that... i used to think it was related to t rex but oh boy was i wrong back then...
Nice facts !
Theropd size comparison
(Max sizes)
1. Tyrannosaurus rex-11+ tonnes
2. Giganotosaurus carolinii-10.4 tonnes
3. Mapusaurus roseae-9.12 tonnes
4. Deinocheirus mirificus-8.5 tonnes
5. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus-8.2 tonnes
6. Spinosaurinae indet.-8 tonnes
7. Tyrannotitan chubutensis-7.8 tonnes
8. Spinosaurus cf. "aegypticus"-6.8 tonnes
9. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis-6.6 tonnes
10. Epanterias amplexus-5.8 tonnes
(Average sizes)
1. Tyrannosaurus rex-9.5 tonnes
2. Giganotosaurus carolinii-7.8 tonnes
3. Mapusaurus roseae-7.6 tonnes
4. Deinocheirus mirificus-7.5 tonnes
5. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus-7.4 tonnes
6. Spinosaurinae indet.-7.3tonnes
7. Tyrannotitan chubutensis-7.2 tonnes
8. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis-6.2 tonnes
9. Epanterias amplexus-5.3 tonnes
10. Tarbosaurus bataar-5.2 tonnes
(Average Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is 3.21 tonnes)
Based on this, kinda:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/10kENNmyqPts-fv-nCgK4Rse5YggniHiVTvj6BVv1JDo/htmlview#
Theropd size comparison
(Max sizes)
1. Tyrannosaurus rex-11+ tonnes
2. Giganotosaurus carolinii-10.4 tonnes
3. Mapusaurus roseae-9.12 tonnes
4. Deinocheirus mirificus-8.5 tonnes
5. Spinosaurinae indet-8 tonnes
6. Tyrannotitan chubutensis-7.8 tonnes
7. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus-7.6 tonnes
8. Spinosaurus cf. "aegypticus"-6.8 tonnes
9. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis-6.6 tonnes
10. Epanterias amplexus-5.8 tonnes
(Average sizes)
1. Tyrannosaurus rex-9.5 tonnes
2. Giganotosaurus carolinii-7.8 tonnes
3. Mapusaurus roseae-7.6 tonnes
4. Deinocheirus mirificus-7.5 tonnes
5. Spinosaurinae indet-7.4 tonnes
6. Tyrannotitan chubutensis-7.2 tonnes
7. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus-6.8 tonnes
8. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis-6.2 tonnes
9. Epanterias amplexus-5.3 tonnes
10. Tarbosaurus bataar-5.2 tonnes
(Average Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is 3.9 tonnes)
Based on this, kinda:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/10kENNmyqPts-fv-nCgK4Rse5YggniHiVTvj6BVv1JDo/htmlview#
My favorite dinosaur.
SSSSSPECIFICALLY. until you were talking ocean side, but it didnt sound like that. lots of info pack into 8 minutes tho =) learning happened
It seems to be a southern relative of the Acrocanthosaurus: no pneumatic vertebrae, higher neural spine, powerfully built...
These Giganotosaurini therapods actually look like runners with longer legs so they could move over terrain quickly. Unlike the T Rex "Sue", which does not look like a capable effective hunter - more like a duck. Thank you for presenting this episode!
One thing I’ve been seeing a lot is people saying, “You can’t use Sue or Scotty to compare T. Rex to the other giant theropods because they are exceptional.” and I’ve got to say that reasoning is flawed. For all we know, the remains we have for the giant carcharadontosaurids could either come in on the lower end of the size estimates, making Rex bigger, or they could be exceptional for their respective species as well.
Trex is also still considered to be bulkier, we always hear "bigger" but that's subjective and typically just means longer. Even Spino had its weight estimate drastically reduced last year
I don’t think Tyrannotitan is the direct ancestor of Gig or Map. When you look at the differences, it just doesn’t make sense. It has smaller arms, a more robust skull with straighter teeth, and a back/tail with more robust bones and muscles. Gig and Map are way too similar to Carcharodontosaurus especially when you compare to Tyrannotitan. My guess is that Tyrannotitan evolved for the needs of the time, and then more sophisticated Mega predators more closely related to Carcharodontosaurus moved in later.
I mean their close ancestor, Veterupristisaurus are doing well in late Jurassic Africa
4:37 "flesh grazing" as a biology term always makes me laugh, I think because it simultaneously sounds both mundane and super gruesome.
Wasn't there a size amp for all dinosaurs half a year ago? According to it scotty wouldve have about 10 tons.
I find it weird that we keep finding bigger and bigger dinosaurs. It’s crazy to think monsters like these were once living, breathing animals.
i hate to sound like a tyranosist.., but i dislike lying more so i will just say it.., them tyranosaurs all look a bit the same to me...
i dont know how people tell them appart ???......., but i must admit to being a bit blind.
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ps thanks for the vids.., please upload more🤗.....,i can not wait for the next😉
Avec 13 mètres de long et 7 tonnes ce superpredateur rivalisait véritablement en taille avec le T-Rex mais aussi son cousin le mapusaurus ( le plus grand était giganotosaurus ,13 a 14 mètres 8 a 9 tonnes ! ) d'ailleurs on entend tyran dans son nom même ce n'était pas un tyrannosaure mais un allosauroide carcharodontosauride.
Tyrannotitan era de 10 tonnes
There was also Sauroniops, which was comparable in size to Carcharodontosaurus but with a thicker skull.
However Sauroniops got bigger than Carcharodontosaurus in the newest paper published by Theropoda.
Where Sauroniops is 12.7m long & 7.7 tons and Carcharodontosaurus is 12m long & 7 tons
@Vidyut Arvind Sauroniops paratype is 12.6 meters so bigger than Carcharodontosaurus however.
I think that tyrannotitan, as well as all the other carcharodontosaurids were not pack hunters, they probably lacked the intelligence necessary to do so, and the fossils could just be off a feeding frenzy where the sounds of the prey and the smell of blood attracted other tyrannotitans.
Still no predator has more robust skull as the trexses as big as they may be
Wow I always thought concavenator was more related to ichthyovenator
Flesh grassing is officialy the most death metal concept ever.
Tyrannotitan is my favorite dinosaur
"The new hypothesis, that the two Tyrannotitan specimens found so far were significantly smaller than the average member of their species, is based on further analysis of the site and the circumstances of the find. Apparently, the two Tyrannotitans had been shoved into a locker, presumably by bullies."