What is being measured?
The museum lists length up to 8 m. This is a museum-published reconstruction estimate, not an exact living-animal measurement.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- reconstructed body length
- Reference value
- 8 m
- Evidence
- Published reference measurement
- In metres
- 8 m
- Variant
- Published upper length estimate
Put the length in perspective
One Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis — upper length estimate represents approximately 93.5 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis — upper length estimate · 8 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m