Sahicasaurus vs Orca

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Jan 30, 2023 18:16:49 GMT Hardcastle said:

Weird. Even the biggest most robust pliosaurs don't seem to have teeth much larger than orcas (to the eye).

"15% larger" actually sounded pretty good for, say, Kronosaurus, when you make a size comparison based on max size skulls



I guess when wikipedia said "slender teeth" what they meant to say was "fucking huge teeth", and all my concerns were for nought.

I could point out that they mention a long root, and orcas have practically no root it seems, but regardless even the diameter is much greater so... nothing to see here? False alarm, Sachia was a monstrosity with enormous teeth not slender at all.

Just to prove I didn't pull that out of my butt-

Diagnostic features include a very short mandibular symphysis, reduced number of mandibular teeth (17 to 18 versus 25 to 40 in other pliosaurids),[3] slender teeth, among other features.

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Well I pulled my quote right out of the study that pretty much every website got their info from. That's 99% more reliable than wikipedia.

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Jan 30, 2023 18:25:48 GMT @ling said:

Jan 30, 2023 18:16:49 GMT Hardcastle said:

Weird. Even the biggest most robust pliosaurs don't seem to have teeth much larger than orcas (to the eye).

"15% larger" actually sounded pretty good for, say, Kronosaurus, when you make a size comparison based on max size skulls



I guess when wikipedia said "slender teeth" what they meant to say was "fucking huge teeth", and all my concerns were for nought.

I could point out that they mention a long root, and orcas have practically no root it seems, but regardless even the diameter is much greater so... nothing to see here? False alarm, Sachia was a monstrosity with enormous teeth not slender at all.

Just to prove I didn't pull that out of my butt-

link

Well I pulled my quote right out of the study that pretty much every website got their info from. That's 99% more reliable than wikipedia.

And slender teeth ≠ height of teeth.

[Hardcastle]

In case it wasn't clear, I'm not arguing with you, I'm agreeing that I was mislead by a bullshit comment on wikipedia. There's nothing even "slender" about the teeth, they have a diameter of 3.6 inches which makes them 3 times less slender than orca teeth.

I do wonder why all the pliosaur skulls don't look to have significantly huger teeth than orca teeth, though. This sachiasaurus seems to have MORE robust and bigger teeth than all the others, not less.