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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 21:51:52 GMT -5
The allosaurus needs to get ion a good bite then perhaps wait out until the stegosaur begins bleeding out. It lacks the crushing bite to end a fight with a thick-bodied animal quickly, though the stegosaur does have a relatively thin neck, so perhaps thats a really vulnerable area. Regardless, I would imagine that there are some blind spot area that the stegosaur cant successfuly defend itself well with its tail. Allosaurus would probably attack it from there. Considering its size and relatively light build, Allosaurus would be pretty messed up if it was struck directly by just one shot of that massive tail.
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Post by Cr1TiKaL on Dec 23, 2013 6:24:32 GMT -5
Stegosaurus stenops is most likely to lose, but a Stegosaurus armatus would win definitely.
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Post by Godzillasaurus on Dec 23, 2013 9:35:58 GMT -5
The allosaurus needs to get ion a good bite then perhaps wait out until the stegosaur begins bleeding out. While allosauroids were certainly very well adapted to cause massive blood loss, quicker killing techniques would include a vertical "hatchet-bite" and the ripping out of important musculature and tissue with a flank bite. While it certainly doesn't possess a very powerful bite or an exceptionally strong dental and skull structure, the are other means in which its wider gape and very thin serrated (and recurved) teeth can be put to good use to end the fight quickly. This would include using the hatchet bite technique to damage the tissue in between vertebrae. You just contradicted yourself there… But you are right, stegosaurus did (despite having a relatively thin neck) have a very muscular neck and that would have been a very vulnerable area indeed. Allosaurus' gracile build would not necessarily make it less "immune" to a thagomizer strike than something like tyrannosaurus (which was considerably bulkier and much more heavily-built), but rather the actual blunt force involved with it. Stegosaur thagomizers were designed to pierce deeply into the leg and surrounding areas of a predator with a lot of force. Didn't you already say that?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 19:18:11 GMT -5
You just contradicted yourself there… But you are right, stegosaurus did (despite having a relatively thin neck) have a very muscular neck and that would have been a very vulnerable area indeed. Sorry, I meant thin neck. It was a typing error and I edited my post.
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