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Originally Posted by AdamJL
An animal that size would have provided quite the meal for another big and yet undiscovered animal  |
The "Age of Dinosaurs" museum outside Winton has the skeletons of "Banjo" (Australovenator wintonensis - a theropod "megaraptor" predator about 1.6 metres high at the hip, and 5 to 6 metres long
https://www.australianageofdinosaurs...or-wintonensis ) and "Matilda" (Diamantinasaurus matildae - a sauropod around 15 metres long
https://www.australianageofdinosaurs...aurus-matildae).
The two skeletons were found intertwined at the same location, suggesting Banjo may have been feasting on Matilda's carcass at the time of Banjo's demise (although it is also possible that both carcasses were washed into the same waterhole independently). It seems unlikely that a predator the size of Banjo could have taken down a sauropod, so it is more likely that Banjo's normal diet consisted of smaller ornithopod dinosaurs, as well as being an opportunistic carrion eater when presented with 20 tonnes or so of sauropod meat.