Description
Patagotitan vs Mammals Scale Diagram SVG Steveoc86.svg
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English:
A size comparison between the one of the largest
sauropod dinosaurs
,
Patagotitan mayorum
, and various large land
mammals
, living and extinct; a
Polar Bear
, the largest extant carnivorous land mammal; a
Giraffe
, the tallest extant land mammal; an
African Elephant
, the largest extant land mammal; a
White Rhino
, the second largest land mammal (excluding other elephant species); the extinct
Rhinocerotoid
Paraceratherium transouralicum
, one of the largest land mammals ever to have existed and the large extinct elephant
Palaeoloxodon recki
.
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•
Patagotitan
is one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs known from relatively complete remains.
[1]
Mounted skeletons are on display at
American Museum of Natural History
and
The Field Museum of Natural History
.
Patagotitan
silhouette based on a reconstruction by Henrique Paes, used with permission.
[2]
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•
Palaeoloxodon recki
silhouette redrawn from Appendix 1 T in Larramendi 2016.
Palaeoloxodon
, along with
Stegodon
and
Mammuthus
, were among some of the largest land mammals. One fragmentary individual of
Palaeoloxodon namadicus
, known from a partial femur (Sagauni II), possibly belongs to the largest land mammal currently known. However, the exact size estimation has some uncertainty and has not been shown here.
[3]
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•
Paraceratherium
silhouette redrawn from Appendix 1 AG in Larramendi 2016. The largest individuals are known from fragmentary remains (i.e. AMNH 26168/75) and there is some uncertainty as to the estimated body size.
[3]
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• Polar Bear silhouette has been primarily redrawn from a personal photo taken in Copenhagen Zoo. One male specimen was reported as 2.85 m long with a shoulder height of 1.7 m.
[4]
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• Giraffe silhouette has been primarily redrawn from a photo by user GTBacchus.
[5]
with modifications to make it look like a male. Scaled to be ~5.88 m tall, the reported height of the tallest giraffe, measured 'between pegs' (i.e. stretched out). Taller heights have been claimed, but these are not as credible or unauthenticated.
[6]
[7]
Note: The giraffe illustrated here is scaled to be 5.88 m when posed with the neck fully vertical with the head extended. However, due to some uncertainty, there could be some slop in the scale here.
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• Elephant silhouette primarily redrawn from a photo by Ian Sewell.
[8]
The silhouette is scaled to have a shoulder height of ~3.2 m, the average height for adult male elephants. Adult females are smaller on average, being around ~2.6 m tall at the shoulder. The reported shoulder height of the largest accurately measured male elephant is over 4 m when laid out on the ground, estimated to be ~3.96 m when standing. Such large individuals are, however, extremely rare.
[3]
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• Rhino silhouette is primarily redrawn from a photo by user Ikiwaner.
[9]
Scaled to have a shoulder height of ~1.86 m.
[10]
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• Humans scaled to 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) and 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) respectively.
References
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José L. Carballido; Diego Pol; Alejandro Otero; Ignacio A. Cerda; Leonardo Salgado ; Alberto C. Garrido ; Jahandar Ramezani ; Néstor R. Cúneo ; Javier M. Krause (2017). "A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1860): 20171219. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.1219.
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Henrique, Paes.
Patagotitan mayorum skeletal reconstruction
.
DeviantArt
. Retrieved on
February 16, 2020
.
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a
b
c
Larramendi A. (2016). "
Shoulder height, body mass and shape of proboscideans
".
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
61
.
DOI
:
10.4202/app.00136.2014
.
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Feldhamer, G.A., Tompson B.C., Chapman J.A (2003).
Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management, and Conservation
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA and London, UK.
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User:GTBacchus. [[[:File:GiraffeRunning.jpg]] Giraffe in Nairobi National Park, Kenya].
https://commons.wikimedia.org
.
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Carwardine, M. (2008).
[1]
Pages 19
The Natural History Museum, Animal Records', Sterling Publishing Company, UK.
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Dagg, A.I. and J. B. Foster (1976/1982): The Giraffe. Its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida (Reprint 1982 with updated supplementary material.)
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Ian Sewell. [[[:File:Moremi_elephant.jpg]] Elephant crossing the road in Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Botswana.].
https://commons.wikimedia.org
.
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User:Ikiwaner. [[[:File:Waterberg_Nashorn3.jpg]] Laufendes Breitmaulnashorn in Namibia].
https://commons.wikimedia.org
.
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Macdonald, D. (2001)
The New Encyclopedia of Mammals
, Oxford University Press, Oxford
ISBN
:
0198508239
.
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