tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090933127365695771.post885894185491323858..comments2024-01-17T19:32:13.920-08:00Comments on Prehistoric Beast of the Week: Acrocanthosaurus: Beast of the WeekChris DiPiazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732594604741735181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090933127365695771.post-29531405704835647262021-04-26T11:56:50.870-07:002021-04-26T11:56:50.870-07:00This is one of the entries that could probably use...This is one of the entries that could probably use an update at this point. However as far as I know the larger adult Acrocanthosaurus specimens are still estimated around 39 feet. Maybe 38 feet. Chris DiPiazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732594604741735181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090933127365695771.post-74013569606741932422021-04-22T20:38:39.179-07:002021-04-22T20:38:39.179-07:0039 feet? Is that still the accepted max. length? ...39 feet? Is that still the accepted max. length? Most other references I've got list it about 33 ft ...Gandalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02539597354486559694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090933127365695771.post-70348396912071528722018-02-24T11:07:06.145-08:002018-02-24T11:07:06.145-08:00Although you show the famous Paluxy River "tr...Although you show the famous Paluxy River "trackway" from Glen Rose, TX, readers should know that thousands of tracks of Acro. and sauropod tracks are found in and around Glen Rose. Although many have eroded badly or broken up since Roland Bird's work there in the early 1940's, many hundreds are still visible when the river is low (typically late summer). The best place to view them is in Dinosaur Valley State Park, just west of Glen rose. There are also many metatarsal tracks in the riverbed, probably made by ornithomimids (as recent work by Farlow, Phil Currie, and I recently showed), and a few trails of ornithopods (bipedal plant-eating dinos). Many of the metatarsal tracks were mistaken for "human" tracks when their digits were subdued by infillings or mud collapse. For more info on that, and a photo gallery from several tracksites, see my Paluxy website at: <br />http://paleo.cc/paluxy.htm <br />Thanks! GK<br /><br />BTW, your last reference, the 1997 Scientific American paper by Thomas and Farlow, is not vol. 266 pages 48-53. It's vol. and pages 74-79. paleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05607034189959294481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090933127365695771.post-15948789584169243852015-09-01T21:43:27.706-07:002015-09-01T21:43:27.706-07:00I love your depiction!! It really gives the sense ...I love your depiction!! It really gives the sense of the animal's weight. By the way, I'm super glad you included the fact that Acrocanthosaurus is known from the Arundel Clay of Maryland. People often forget that the eastern US had its fair share of allosaurs as well. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10666499135580734620noreply@blogger.com