Sushi

Sushi is a water-attributed Suchomimus who is a member of the D-Team

## Character design

### Personality:

Sushi thinks too much with her stomach. since she is a Suchomimus, her primary instinct is of course about eating as much fish as possible. But its not like she thinks about fish all the time, in fact, when it came to her fellow piscivores, like her mate, Marlin the Baryonyx, and older cousin, Spiny the Spinosaurus, she'll do whatever she can to help them out, only when it came to earning a celebratory sushi joint.

### Anatomy:

As a Suchomimus, Sushi lengths at 10.3–11 metres (34–36 feet), with an estimated weight of between 2.7–5.2 tonnes (3.0–5.7 short tons; 2.7–5.1 long tons).

### Skull:

Unlike most giant theropod dinosaurs, Sushi has a very crocodilian-like skull, with a long, low snout and narrow jaws formed by a forward expansion of the premaxillae (frontmost snout bones) and the hind branch of the maxillae (main upper jaw bone). The premaxillae had an upward branch excluding the maxillae from the external nares (bony nostrils). The jaws have about 122 conical teeth, pointed but not very sharp and curving slightly backwards, with fine serrations and wrinkled enamel. The tip of the snout is enlarged sideways and carried a "terminal rosette" of longer teeth, seven per side in the premaxillae and about the same number in the corresponding part of the lower jaw. Further back, there were at least 22 teeth per upper jaw side in the maxilla, while the entire lower jaw side carries 32 teeth in the dentary bone.

Her upper jaw has a prominent kink just behind the rosette, protruding downwards; this convexly curves part of the maxilla had the longest teeth of the entire skull. The internal bone shelves of the maxillae meet each other in the midline of the skull over a long distance, forming a closed secondary palate that stiffenes the snout, and setting off the internal nostrils and palatal complex (including the pterygoid, palatine and ectopterygoid) towards the back of the skull. The nostrils, unlike in most theropods, were retracted further back on the skull and behind the premaxillary teeth. The external nares were long, narrow and horizontally positioned; the same was true of the larger antorbital fenestrae, a pair of bony openings in front of the eyes. The rear of the skull is poorly known but for a short quadrate bone, which had broad condyles (round protrusions) away from the centre of attachment and—like in the spinosaurid *Baryonyx*—had a large foramen (opening) separating it from the quadratojugal bone. The lower jaws were greatly elongated and narrow, forming a rigid structure as their dentaries touched each other at the midline, reinforcing the mandible against torsional (bending and twisting) forces.

### Postcranial skeleton:

The neck is relatively short but well-muscled as shown by strong epipophyses (processes to which neck muscles attached). There are about sixteen dorsal vertebrae. sushi has significantly extended neural spines—blade-shaped upward extensions on the vertebrae—which are elongated at the rear back. Those of the five sacral vertebrae were the longest. The elongation of these structures continued until the middle of the tail. The spines may have held up some kind of low crest or sail of skin that was highest over its hips, lower and extending further to the back than that of *Spinosaurus*, in which the sail reached its highest peak over the dorsal vertebrae. This condition is more reduced in *Baryonyx*

The furcula is V-shaped and indicates a high and narrow trunk. The scapula has a rectangular acromion, or attachment site for clavicle (collarbone). The humerus (upper arm bone) was very strongly built, only equaled in size among non-spinosaurid theropods by that of *Megalosaurus* and *Torvosaurus*, with robust upper corners. The humerus has a boss (bone overgrowth) above the condyle that contacted its hook-shaped radius (forearm bone). Accordingly, the ulna of the lower arm is well-developed with an enormous olecranon (upper process set-off from the shaft), an exceptional trait shared with *Baryonyx*. The heavy arm musculature powered sizable hand claws, that of the first digit (or "thumb") being the largest with a length of 19 centimetres (7.5 inches). Only the third metacarpal (long bone of the hand) is known; showing a robust morphology (form). In the pelvis, the ilium (main hip bone) is high. The pubis (pubic bone) has a front surface that is wider than the side surface, and its forward-facing lower end is flattened and rectangular, with a brief flange along the midline, in contrast to the expanded boot shape it had in other theropods. The ischium (lower and rearmost hip bone) bares a low obturator flange. The femur (thighbone) is straight and robust, with a length of 107 cm (42 in) in the holotype. Its lesser trochanter is markedly plate-like. In the ankle, the astralagus has an ascending process taller than that of *Allosaurus.*