Maximum Bite Force and Prey Size of Tyrannosaurus rex and Their Relationships to the Inference of Feeding Behavior

By Mason B. Meers. 2002

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Feeding behaviour and bite force of sabretoothed predators (2005, background): “Of course, this force is influenced by the body mass of the animal (see Meers, 2002) but it also reflects the adaptation of the jaw toward specific loads, related to the killing technique of the predator.”
A high-resolution growth series of Tyrannosaurus rex obtained from multiple lines of evidence (2020, background): “Craniomandibular variation The results obtained here provide an opportunity to review the variation reported by Molnar (1990) in his extensive descriptive monograph of the skull and mandibular rami of T.”
Komodo monitor (Varanus komodoensis) feeding behavior and dental function reflected through tooth marks on bone surfaces, and the application to ziphodont paleobiology (2009, background): “The tooth mark models developed from modern mammals and crocodilians are unsuitable substitutes, given differences in tooth, jaw, and cranial morphology between them and most ziphodont taxa (Busbey 1995; Van Valkenburgh and Molnar 2002).”
Cranial Kinesis in Dinosaurs: Intracranial Joints, Protractor Muscles, and Their Significance for Cranial Evolution and Function in Diapsids (2008, background): “This potentially suggests that the muscles hypertrophied to compensate for the enlarged adductor muscles and increased bite force characteristic of these predatory dinosaurs (e.g., Erickson et al., 1996; Hurum and Currie, 2000; Rayfield et al., 2001; Meers, 2002).”