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also is there an article for obesity in animals like turtles can turtles become obese? 1204753792 edits ( talk) 01:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Usually when a new species of prehistoric animal (and even more of this kind) is immediately described, there is already a "classification" section, sometimes even accompanied by a cladogram. So, I ask that someone with at least some experience can develop this section about the phylogenetic place of Ichthyotitan. Amirani1746 ( talk) 09:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
" It is of note that sea reptile size got hyped in the search for ratings ... there seems to be an effort by some paleos to produce super sized marine reptiles to fit the bill. And perhaps dino size envy, there certainly were sauropods of 100 tonnes and maybe even more than that back in ye Mesozoic, where are the ichthyosaurs et al to compare? After all they are buoyed by water and whales got as big although that is pretty much limited to the late Pliocene-Pleistocene. And there is the new culture of why bother to go to the effort to produce carefully constructed profile-skeletals, just run some seemingly fancy-dandy calculations that will improve one's chances of getting tenure and we end up with Triassic basal ichthyosaur and basal whale masses over estimated many fold. One person has labeled my methodology old fashioned. ... At least my work has been suppressing claims of megamasses in the technical literature, and the Attenborough documentary on the new giant Brit pliosaur did not even mention its mass as I recall." -Gregory Paul' via DMG ___ Paul has a point here, folks - remember the Scandanavian pliosaur 'Monster X' and its downsizing, and several others as well. I would use this in the article as a balance against the huge 'projected' size of this critter. 2603:6080:21F0:6000:35DD:99D6:F446:E542 ( talk) 19:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
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also is there an article for obesity in animals like turtles can turtles become obese? 1204753792 edits ( talk) 01:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Usually when a new species of prehistoric animal (and even more of this kind) is immediately described, there is already a "classification" section, sometimes even accompanied by a cladogram. So, I ask that someone with at least some experience can develop this section about the phylogenetic place of Ichthyotitan. Amirani1746 ( talk) 09:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
" It is of note that sea reptile size got hyped in the search for ratings ... there seems to be an effort by some paleos to produce super sized marine reptiles to fit the bill. And perhaps dino size envy, there certainly were sauropods of 100 tonnes and maybe even more than that back in ye Mesozoic, where are the ichthyosaurs et al to compare? After all they are buoyed by water and whales got as big although that is pretty much limited to the late Pliocene-Pleistocene. And there is the new culture of why bother to go to the effort to produce carefully constructed profile-skeletals, just run some seemingly fancy-dandy calculations that will improve one's chances of getting tenure and we end up with Triassic basal ichthyosaur and basal whale masses over estimated many fold. One person has labeled my methodology old fashioned. ... At least my work has been suppressing claims of megamasses in the technical literature, and the Attenborough documentary on the new giant Brit pliosaur did not even mention its mass as I recall." -Gregory Paul' via DMG ___ Paul has a point here, folks - remember the Scandanavian pliosaur 'Monster X' and its downsizing, and several others as well. I would use this in the article as a balance against the huge 'projected' size of this critter. 2603:6080:21F0:6000:35DD:99D6:F446:E542 ( talk) 19:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)