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so we've got a lot of areas of speculation and tautological reasoning: body mass, tooth length/body mass, foot length/body mass, prey taken, and predation strategies.

using one speculative argument to support another is what most paleontology for public consumption is about, but in real life we prefer much more rigorous arguments. That kind of speculative work is fluff, it's fun to read but doesn't really mean anything because it can't be supported or rejected based on evidence.