@ausar_the 4/4 It’s your comparison with Prognathodon that gives me that specific impression. Cutting edges may aid incision, but that doesn’t establish superior dismemberment capabilities or rule out shearing during occlusion.
@ausar_the 3/3 Your wording also gives me the impression you’re downplaying Livyatan’s specialization for macropredation. Are you arguing that interlocking teeth primarily evolved for gripping and not crushing, or that their occlusion couldn’t contribute significantly to shearing?
@ausar_the Ok so let me ask: do you specifically disagree specifically with Lambert et al.’s interpretation of the vertical occlusal wear facets as evidence of shearing, or with Peri et al.’s proposed posterior-tooth cutting mechanism in Zygophyseter?
@ausar_the I mean, Prognathodon, especially P. saturate had very fine serrations on very conical teeth, nowhere near the pseudoziphodont and laterally compressed teeth we see in T. bernardi or Khinjaria.
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Suko from ‘Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire’ compared to Godzilla and King Ghidorah from ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’
Suko’s height: 45 meters
Godzilla’s height: 50.1 meters
King Ghidorah’s height: 70 meters
@ausar_the I mean considering the dental overlap I doubt that Prognathodon and Zygophyseter’s apparatus would be too different. I don’t anything from the Physeretoid dentition we have implies a Great White-esque dentition or bite style
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@badwald@tomal_cetology True, but if that’s the case, then if the rostral node came from an Otodontid it would either be an early stage fetal Otodus or newborn Parotodus.
@badwald@tomal_cetology True, regardless, if it were either Otodus or Parotodus, we’d have to determine whether or not it was a basal condition or a derived condition exclusive to that genus. Add onto that just how mineralized it is for such a small shark(1.5m estimates from Greenfield)