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Image: Ankylosaurus Scale V2

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Description: Size comparison of the ankylosaurid dinosaur Ankylosaurus magniventrus. The silhouette is based on a skeletal by GetAwayTrike.[1] The bone measurements used to scale the specimens come from Carpenter (2004).[2] The length of the larger specimen is close to 8 m (26 ft), matching the maximum length estimate proposed for this species by Arbour & Mallon.[3] The human silhouette is from File:Silhouette of man standing and facing forward.svg (CC0). References

↑ GetAwayTrike (2016) Heavy armored special. Deviant Art

↑ Carpenter, Kenneth (2004). "Redescription of Ankylosaurus magniventris Brown 1908 (Ankylosauridae) from the UpperCretaceous of the Western Interior of North America". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41: 961–986.

↑ Arbour, Victoria M.; Mallon, Jordan C. (2017). "Unusual cranial and postcranial anatomy in the archetypal ankylosaur Ankylosaurus magniventris". Facets 2 (2): 764-794.
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