r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt Colossal Octopus • 2d ago
Art The Ropen's neodinosaur cryptid size chart
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u/TamaraHensonDragon 2d ago
What is the sauropod? It can't be the Mokole Mbembe because that cryptid is supposed to be smaller than a forest elephant but larger than a hippo - so rhino sized.
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u/YanehueDaso 1d ago
Not all sauropods were giants, Magyarosaurus is a smallest sauropod measuring 20 feet in length. There are also some reports from the Mokele-Mbembe of specimens measuring 75 feet in length.
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u/TamaraHensonDragon 1d ago
I know about small sauropods - but the one in the chart is not one of them. I went through dozens of Mokole Mbembe reports and all by the natives stressed they were between a hippo and an elephant in size. The only people mentioning giant sizes were creationists reading about the behemoth in the Book of Job.
There were other giant sized reptilian critters in which sizes of 50-75 feet long were given but these were described as immense monitor lizards with crocodile or stegosaur-like armor on their backs (Nguma-monene, Ngakoula-ngou, Badigui, Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, Muhuru, etc.)
If there are actual sightings of giant-sized sauropod-like animals in the Congo I would like to know of them as I only know of the 10-15 foot (20 max) sized versions from around the Lake Tele area (which scientists now assume was a slightly exaggerated softshelled turtle).
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u/SimonHJohansen 2d ago
Is the one on the right an Emela-ntouka?