Fossils B/C

[quizbowl]

Okay- you don't need to know about Amphicoelias fragillimus.

actually, that might be very important.
a regional question was "a member of which of these could have the largest species?
a) sauropods
b) ornithopods
c) synapsids
d) aves

[paleonaps]

That depends on whether it is by weight or length. If length, there are other less obscure dinosaurs longer than a blue whale, but if by weight, synapsids win.

[quizbowl]

That depends on whether it is by weight or length. If length, there are other less obscure dinosaurs longer than a blue whale, but if by weight, synapsids win.

i remember it was length.

[paleonaps]

Then sauropods win.

[quizbowl]

exactly. thats why that species is important.

[paleonaps]

They would have won with Argentinosaurus too- but I concede defeat.

[sciencegeek100]

They would have won with Argentinosaurus too- but I concede defeat.

the blue whale is largest animal to ever live...

[paleonaps]

In weight, but at 100 feet long (max), the blue whale loses to a few sauropod dinosaurs, Amphicoelias fragillimus being the longest- at 196 feet long.

[Flavorflav]

Based on a single vertebra that disappeared over a hundred years ago.

[paleonaps]

Yes, that was the only sure specimen, but as I remember it they also found the top of a gigantic femur. There is no reason to believe that it didn't exist, though, because even though it took place during the bone wars it never denied of by Cope's rival O.C. Marsh.