Just for fun,..what is your favorite dinosaur or prehistoric creature?11405
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town I will have to check out the Pygmy Mammoths As for the Brontosaurus yeah I think there still arguing about that. Kind of like the planet Pluto now you see it now you don’t. I was able to obtain a few years ago a Mammoth Tooth, a actual lock of fur and a bone from the heal of a Mammoth all from northeastern most Siberia. I also have a small section of tusk with some Mammoth carvings on it. That came from northwestern China/Mongolia region. But the study of the earth’s climate change and the migration of the Mammoth’s was really a eye opener. Not only did I get a climate change education so did my grandkids. Hence the Greta comment. Lol. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by TowmaterGreat post, thanks for sharing. Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus both had horns as well, although neither species was as well pronounced as with Carnotaurus….also Carnotaurus was found with an almost complete body cast of its skin |
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Rich Buckler also did good Dino work. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Also have a ‘saur spot for a Gaines File Copy of that issue. I’ll save that image to post in the pedigree thread. Guess you could say I’m a Two Rex fan!   . |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Thanks It was completely unexpected when I was buying the book. I felt like Sir Galahad when asked what his favorite color was lolThrilled with it nonetheless, but I wonder what I would have settled with had I known he was going to sketch. Once put on the spot, I felt saying, "T Rex, Raptor, or Spinosaurus" would have made him roll his "inner" eyes, and I couldn't remember the name of the big pterosaurs. But really, there's no wrong answer, and it was a treat to watch. Had I been prepared, I would have recorded it. |
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| well from a dinophile perspective I can offer some thoughts about your potential choices and the reaction....T-rex and raptors are the hands down most popular choices...but a true dinosaur afficonado would say Tyrannosaurus...its considered more correct, and technicaly saying raptors could mean any form of eagle or hawk....Spinosaurus is another Jurassic park fanboy request, similar to t rex and raptor. ...if he asked what was your favorite dinosaur and you had named a pterosaur, pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. ….the very definition of a dinosaur is a terrestrial animal that walks upright with a hip in socket motion...yada yada....so you might have just chosen the best possible "right" answer of your choices. | ||
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| T-Rex Just so cool looking. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town But I can't spell "Tyrannosaurus", George. (No Prize to whoever gets the reference )I probably would have said the actual name, but T-Rex minimizes typing. That was the idea, anyway. So much for that lmao Quote: Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town The Force was with me  |
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| T rex is just one of many tyrannosauridae...I.e. see yutyrannus, Dasplateosaurus, Gorgosaurus,albertosaurus, and especially lythronax. Rex has always been the Hollywood king and gotten all the love, but Yutyrannus was preserved with a nearly complete covering of feathers...Dasplateosaurus was long before T rex in time and gorgosaurus and albertosaurus seemed to be more common towards Canada. I think the entire family is the utter definition of apex predator. |
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| @Darkseid_of_town - What's your take on Pachycephalosaurus - the bone-headed or dome-skulled dinosaur? Do you think that males really smashed their thick skulls together? | ||
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| https://dinomuseum.ca/2020/02/25/the-real-pachycephalosaurus/ | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo My own view is that pachys were part of a larger family that also included stegoceras and Stygimoloch and both species were actually different growth stages of the same animal. I also think that while we are just viewing the bone skull caps, and headgear its essential to remember these would have been covered in keratin and could likely have had some lethal points or spikes at the end of those knobs and points. The evidence doesn't often preserve behavioral traits like head butting and to say categorically no or yes is incorrect, but my own best guess is that animals will use any part of their body they can was a weapon when attacked...and for defense. I dont see these guys running at each other from twenty fet apart and slamming into one another with a bone jarring crunch, but its likely they did engage in head butting, ramming one another and so forth using their head gear. The different types and arrangements of skull ornamentation could also have helped identify species to one another or even sexual variety.Look to birds with their different combs and styles of headgear as well.... I can offer if I were a marauding t rex and one of these guys slammed into my ribs I might back up and rethink my plans for lunch. |
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| So how do some of you feel about the idea that some lineages of dinosaur led to the modern day bird, and other lineages went extinct like the large sauropods and armored dinosaurs? | ||
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Eurypterids |
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Imagine one of those at 8.2 feet long.... |
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| Few years ago my mother stopped at a Rock shop close to Royal Gorge in Colorado. Owner had a pallet outside of massive hunks of dinosaur bome. Mom knows precious little about dinosaurs bones so she chose me a soveneir.....a 24 pound one. She brought it to me and I realized she had randomly chosen me a large sauropod vert. Sent some pictures to Ken Carpenter. Ken Carpenter is one of the most respected and well known paleontologists in the world...so I eagerly awaited his reply.....it came a day later and was rather amazing He made multiple dterminations about this bone based on his understanding... 1) due to the lack of color and whitening of the piece, it was either a surface find or close to the surface. 2)due to the type of shale present in the opening for the umbilical, he was able to place this specimen as coming from the morrison formation, which would be western united states, Jurassic period. 3) the flat area at the bottom is where someone sawed off the processes...but you can see a thin crack between the two where they were joined...a sign this was a sub adult, as they had not completely fused. 4) The front of the vert is cupped inward...to allow the ball shaped back of a vert next in line to rest within it...placing this as somewhere in the sacral area..or directly over the rear hips. 5) as the back side of the piece is flat, it had to be the final disc in the Sacral...before the tail began...so at the end of the body , right prior to the tail. 6) based on the placement and size of the foramen for the umbilical cord, this was from the family diplodocus, albeit unknown which species....barosaurus, diplodocus etc. I asked Dr Carpenter how he was so familiar with this particular dinosaur and he explained he had spent quite a bit of time with one...he was the scientist who mounted the specimen at the Colorado Museum of Nature and Science...pictured in the last picture. I made a point to visit his mount and spend an afternoon looking at it... meantime my side of the road rock shop souvenir my mom had gotten for 3.00 a pound or 76.00 is now an identified specimen , by a well reknowned paleontologist and worthy perhaps 2500?    |
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| @Darkseid_of_town If you could look at these pictures I would value your opinion I got this a few years ago from a estate sale... the person selling it didn't know much about it, but said she was pretty sure her husband got it Montana I tried to way it this morning but my digital scale wouldn't register it.. but my guess it weights about 10 or so lbs.. if you have the time.. I would have messaged you but no pic's on the message page.. Thanks for taking the time..        |
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| If still alive today counts? Agnathans. Hagfish haven't shown any major evolutionary changes in over 300 million years. They have a ton of very unique adaptations/traits.hagfish researcher | ||
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| When the curator mentioned a huge saber-toothed tiger skull stored behind the scenes of the National Museum of Natural History in Montevideo, Uruguay, Aldo Manzuetti had to see for himself. The skull belonged to Smilodon populator. Extinct for about 10,000 years, the heavily muscled species once Hulk-smashed its way through South American fauna in the Pleistocene. To picture a normal individual, start with an African lion. Then double its size and add giant fangs. But this one wasn’t normal. The skull was 16 inches long, making previous large specimens from the species look small. “I thought I was doing something wrong,” said Mr. Manzuetti, a doctoral student in paleontology at Uruguay’s University of the Republic. He was using the head to infer the likely size of the animal’s body. “I checked the results a lot of times, and only after doing that I realized I hadn’t made any mistakes.” His analysis showed the skull sat atop a beast that likely tipped the scales at around 960 pounds. The specimen’s existence, he and colleagues reported earlier this month in the journal Alcheringa, suggests that the largest saber-toothed tigers might have been able to take down giant plant-eaters, heavy as pickup trucks, that researchers had thought were untouchable. clickable text |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GotliftJust using a few pictures it is often hard to evaluate any fossil clearly...due to missing information like density, and so forth. Knowing that I can offer an OPINION for what little mine is worth....What I see are the knobbish shapes that suggest the end of a femur bone.... The object is clearly bone, as suggested by the texture revealed in the 5th image.(almost a hollow honeycomb nature) The smooth or grooved areas would serve as muscle attachments … Montanna could be either dinosaur, marine reptile or even mammal...to my eyes, it isn't dinosaur...not enough mineralization and a lack of color. Most dinosaur bones are either highly colorful or dull black...marine reptile like a mosaurus might be possible given the lack of color, but they did not have femurs with elegant knobs ……..to my eyes that suggests some sort of mammal bone …. I am fifty fifty on mammal or marine reptile...it has clear mineralization so definitely a fossil and definitely bone. |
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Food for thought...these are a few images I located of mosaurus verts.....   inclinded to think that might be the answer..notice the texture, color, and shaping of the v area shown in your third picture |
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| @Darkseid_of_town Thanks I appreciate your analysis. I thought maybe a Mammoth Femoral bone or something nearly as big. and she may have been guessing Montana. But all in all thanks again. |
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| As I suggested, mammal would make mammoth a possibility...if it were, it would be the end of a femur or humerus . …..the solid mineralization however tends to make me think marine reptile and older....like mosasaurus or something similar. It isn't a shark vert for sure, and doesn't look like pleisiosaur..however. | ||
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a few mammoth femurs....   |
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| Well I’ve got a start. Right now the Internet down here is slow (really slow) the snowbirds overwhelm the Internet and cell phone carriers in the winter and with everyone staying home it’s getting worse. So when it opens up I’ll do some searching I now have a mission. I’ll let you know if I find something similar. Thanks |
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| Triceratops is my favorite, like a tank | ||
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| triceratops is perhaps the most common fossil dinosaur found in the hell creek formation and they were huge, and those horns....imagine an entire herd of them spread out for miles, chewing their plants and making little calls to one another as a grouping of sub adults plays in the middle of the herd | ||
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Like a lot of people I was fascinated by dinosaurs when I was a kid. Stegosaurus was always my favorite. I also loved pterodactyls.  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Imagine the amount of methane gas and no global warming we went into the ice age after the Dino’s left. A.O.C. Pay attention one dinosaur fart is equal to a whole herd of little old cows. 🦕=  ++ |
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