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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 4, 2024 13:25:48 GMT
I have an awesome new T-Rex, his name is Stan, after the fifth most complete T-Rex ever discovered, whom I believe is going on display at a new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi sometime next year.   |
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Post by LadyPorthos on Aug 4, 2024 19:08:34 GMT
New quiz question: On which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found? North America, Asia, Africa, Antartica, Europe, Australia or South America? Hmm...I'll guess Europe |
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Post by darrenvox on Aug 5, 2024 0:53:19 GMT
my guess would be north america!!
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 5, 2024 7:14:32 GMT
Spent part of this afternoon counting my collection of prehistoric animals and the total has come to....548! (22 marine reptiles, 484 non-avian dinos, 23 pterosaurs and 19 animals that don't fit into any of the other categories).
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 5, 2024 7:42:23 GMT
Name: PortellsaurusPronunciation: Pour-tell-sore-usMeaning of name: "Portell lizard", after Portell de Morella, eastern Spain, where its fossils were discovered.Species: P. sosbaynatiSize: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils.Family: Uncertain. Possibly either an Iguanodontid or a primitive Hadrosaurid.Diet: HerbivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from a partial right dentary (tooth-bearing jawbone) discovered by Miquel Guardiola, Julián Yuste and Silvia Fabregat in the Margas de Mirambell Formation near the town of Portell de Morella, eastern Spain, in 1998. Named by Andrés Santos-Cubedo, Carlos de Santisteban, Begoña Poza and Sergi Meseguer in 2021.Lived: 130 to 129 million years ago during the Hauterivian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now eastern Spain.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Aug 5, 2024 9:11:47 GMT
On which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found? North America, Asia, Africa, Antartica, Europe, Australia or South America? I go with Asia. |
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 6, 2024 7:21:40 GMT
Name: JianchangosaurusPronunciation: Gee-an-chan-go-sore-usMeaning of name: "Jianchang lizard", after Jianchang county, Liaoning Province, northeastern China, where its fossils were discovered.Species: J. yixianensisSize: Estimated to have measured around 2 metres long.Family: Uncertain. Likely a primitive Therizinosaurid.Diet: HerbivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from a single, almost complete juvenile skeleton discovered in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Named by Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Junchang Lu, Yanhua Wu, Huali Chang, Li Xu, Jiming Zhang and Songhai Jia in 2013.Lived: 126 million years ago during the Hauterivian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now northeastern China.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Aug 6, 2024 13:23:01 GMT
Maybe a little overdimensioned for a herbivore?
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Post by Joey on Aug 7, 2024 7:40:23 GMT
I like Asia too for my guess.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 7, 2024 8:04:27 GMT
Just a friendly reminder about this week's quiz question. You've been asked: On which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found? North America, Asia, Africa, Antartica, Europe, Australia or South America?Today's dino: Name: SiluosaurusPronunciation: See-loo-oh-sore-usMeaning of name: "Silu lizard", from the Chinese word for 'Silk Road' in reference to the place where its fossils were discovered.Species: S. zhanggianiSize: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils.Family: UncertainDiet: HerbivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from teeth discovered by the Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition in Gansu Province, northwestern China, in 1992. Named by Chinese palaeontologist, Dong Zhiming, in 1997.Lived: 130 to 112 million years ago from the Hauterivian stage through to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now northwestern China. Artist's impression of the head of Siluosaurus |
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Post by Tix Mascot on Aug 7, 2024 12:21:32 GMT
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Post by darrenvox on Aug 7, 2024 18:34:29 GMT
agreed
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 8, 2024 10:33:43 GMT
Name: AlocodonPronunciation: Ah-low-coe-donMeaning of name: "Furrowed tooth"Species: A. kuehneiSize: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured around 1 metre long and weighing 30kgs.Family: UncertainDiet: HerbivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from teeth discovered in the Cabaços Formation of Portugal and the Forest Marble and Chipping Norton Formations of England. Named by British palaeontologist, Richard A. Thulborn, in 1973. Some palaeontologists consider Alocodon to be a dubious species due to the lack of postcranial fossils.Lived: 161.5 to 154.8 million years ago during the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic in what is now England and Portugal.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Aug 8, 2024 14:51:56 GMT
Some herbivores have a distinct 'carnivore look'.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 9, 2024 11:01:57 GMT
A final reminder about this week's quiz question before the answer is revealed tomorrow. You've been asked: On which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found? North America, Asia, Africa, Antartica, Europe, Australia or South America?
Today's dino:
Name: Erketu
Pronunciation: Er-keh-too
Meaning of name: "Erketü Tengri", after the creator god (tengri) of the Mongolian shamanism.
Species: E. ellisoni
Size: Estimated to have measured around 15 metres long and weighing 5 metric tonnes.
Family: Uncertain. Possibly a primitive Titanosaurid.
Diet: Herbivore
First fossils found: Known from neck vertebrae, a partial sternum and partial bones from the right hindleg discovered by an American Museum of Natural History–Mongolian Academy of Sciences expedition in the Bayan Shireh Formation of Mongolia in 2002. Named by palaeontologists, Daniel Ksepka and Mark Norell, in 2006. Erketu was one of the first sauropods to be discovered in the Bayan Shireh Formation and its elongated neck vertebrae indicate that it was the sauropod with the longest neck in relation to its body size.
Lived: 96 to 89 million years ago from the Cenomanian stage through to the Coniacian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia.
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