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fundinofactoftheday · 1 year

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Dinofact #109

Edmontosaurus' taxonomic history is quite complicated, with specimens belonging to E. annectens being classified as many other species, such as Hadrosaurus, Diclonius, and Claosaurus, as well as the dubious genera Trachodon and Thespesius, and, now synonymous with Edmontosaurus, the genera Anatosaurus and Anatotitan.

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 8 months

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my partner and i have been arguing for the past 10 mins about how we know what dinosaurs looked like. they specifically have a problem with hadrosaurs and whenever i show them an up-to-date paleoart reconstruction of a hadrosaur (edmontosaurus and anatotitan were the big two) they just go ''they did NOT look like that. there's no way to know they looked like that.'' do u have any ideas how to explain the science behind reconstruction of extinct animals based on fossils? bc i'm at a loss lol

so we have tons of hadrosaur mummies, actually. so that's how for that one

other than that, we can extrapolate based on living animals. muscles scar the bones, so those are easy. organs typically go in similar places. and skin and feather impressions are helpful in many cases

but edmontosaurus straight up has a mummy, so we know exactly what it looked like

#edmontosaurus #dinosaurs #dinosaur reconstructions #paleontology #palaeoblr

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zponds · 1 year

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My big idea for Genie Team Season 10

Well, this is my 500th post, so I thought I’d talk about something big. That being one big idea I have for Grantgfan’s Genie Team season 10.

With that being the 10th season, I thought that my idea for it would be pretty big too. And my idea for The Genie Team season 10 is… the genies, their masters, and their friends finding out the realization of dinosaurs (and other prehistoric creatures) all around the world.

And this whole thing would be teased at the end of season 9, where a large map of the world with thumbtacks stuck in it, with each one depicting a known location of dinosaur sightings. They’d be 14 in all (at the moment); with 5 in North America, 3 in South America, 4 in Africa, 1 in Indonesia, and 1 in Australia. And as season 10 progresses, more thumbtacks would be added to the map, with a different color representing a different wave; like red for wave 1, blue for wave 2, green for wave 3, and yellow for wave 4.

And speaking of waves, the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures would make appearances in the several waves below. WAVE 1: Dryosaurus, Gallimimus, Homalocephale, Kentrosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Styracosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Corythosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Albertosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Velociraptor, Acrocanthosaururs, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurs Rex, Triceratops, Torosaurus, Carcharadontosaurus, Alioramus, Apatosaurus, Baryonyx, Compsognathus, Deinonychus, Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Maiasaura, Ornithomimus, Panoplosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Wuerosaurus, Yangchuanosaurus, Pteranodon, Dimorphodon, Mosasaurus, and Tylosaurus.

WAVE 2: Othnielia, Hypsilophodon, Mamenchisaurus, Supersaurus, Brontosaurus, Ultrasaurus, Lambeosaurus, Shantungosaurus, Anatotitan, Olorotitan, Tsintaosaurus, Saurolophus, Hadrosaurus, Altirhinus, Centrosaurus, Einiosaurus, Pentaceratops, Euoplocephalus, Protoceratops, Psittacosaurus, Avaceratops, Microceratus, Orodrmeus, Gastonia, Edmontonia, Altirhinus, Brachylophosaurus, Gryposaurus, Hoplitosaurus, Stegoceras, Prenocephale, Tuojiangosaurus, Lexovisaurus, Paranthodon, Miragaia, Struthiomimus, Troodon, Proceratosaurus, Herrerasaurus, Torvosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus, Desplatosaurus, Suchomimus, Irritator, Procompsognathus, Ornitholestes, Cearadactylus, Geosternbergia, Nyctosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and Styxosaurus.

WAVE 3: Dreadnoughtus, Alamosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Paralititan, Patagotitan, Sauroposeidon, Puertasaurus, Therizinosaurus, Convolosaurus, Leaellynasaurua, Stenopelix, Garudimimus, Wannanosaurus, Parkosaurus, Nipposaurus, Callovosaurus, Segnosaurus, Deinocheirus, Leptoceratops, Plateosaurus, Mussaurus, Melanosaurus, Oviraptor, Gigantoraptor, Caudipteryx, Lesothosaurus, Camptosaurus, Camposaurus, Yutyrannus, Rugops, Utahraptor, Dakotaraptor, Austroraptor, Sinosauropteryx, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan, Giganotosaurus, Gorogasaurus, Chirostenotes, Sinraptor, Microraptor, Sinornithosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Epidexipteryx, Caelestiventus, Tupuxuara, Zhenyuanopterus, Tropeognathus, Ornithocheirus, Hatzegopteryx, Alanqa, Hainosaurus, Icthyosaurus, Dakosaurus, Pliosaurus, and Temnodontasaurus.

WAVE 4: Shunosaurus, Saltasaurus, Nigersaurus, Amaragasaurus, Sinoceratops, Nasutoceratops, Agujaceratops, Chasmosaurus, Chungkingosaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Dravidosaurus, Nodosaurus, Sauropelta, Minmi, Muttaburrasaurus, Dracorex, Stygimoloch, Dromiceimimus, Coelophysis, Eoraptor, Syntasaurus, Staurikosaurus, Saltopus, Shamosaurus, Struthiosaurus, Masiakasaurus, Eustreptospobdylus, Monolophosaurus, Limnoscelis, Labyrinthodontia, Diplocaulus, Koolosuchus, Metriorhynchus, Microposaurus, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus, Ichthyostega, Eogyrinus, Cacops, Seymouria, Prinoshuchus, Acanthostega, Eryops, Mastodonsaurus, Metoposaurus, Nothosaurus, Tanystropheus, Mesosaurus, Cryptoclidus, Kronosaurus, Liopleurodon, Shonisaurus, Onchopristus, Protostega, Archelon, Globidens, Ramphorhyncus, Ludodactylus, Scaphognathus, Tupandactylus, Azdarcho, Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia, Pterygotus, Ammonite, Cladoselache, Dunkleosteus, Eustenopteron, Hylonomus, Dimetrodon, Scutosaurus, Kannemeyeria, and Lystrosaurus.

That’s the four main waves of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, and other prehistoric creatures that’ll appear in Genie Team season 10. It’s a lot of species, I know, but it’ll help in making season 10 of Grantgfan’s Genie Team even bigger. And I’d gladly help him in figuring out the scripts for future episodes of season 10.

#the genie team #dinosaurs #dinosaur

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thinksandthings · 2 years

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Heya! Your recent dino etymology was super fun to read (≧▽≦)

I'll be really interested to read more of it :))

Also purely out of curiosity, but is there any story behind your knowledge of dino etymology?

I'm so glad you liked it! x) Here's another one:

So there is currently a dinosaur referred to as the Edmontosaurus, which means the not-so interesting "dinosaur from Edmonton," however, one of its earlier classifications was anatotitan, which much more interestingly means "giant duck." If I am being entirely honest, duck is not the first thing I would have likened to the pictures I've seen, but I guess with a layer of feathers it might make a little more sense.

The word is a compound in two parts, the first being the Latin anas which means "duck," and I've seen it be credited to a few different Indo-European roots, but the clearest connection looks like anat- for "duck" or "water bird." This particular root was what gave rise to the original Old English term for duck, ened, which was eventually replaced by a different Old English term duce, meaning "diver, dipper or ducker."

The second half is actually the same as one of the components of a previous dinosaur post, being titan which means "large, grand" coming from the Ancient Greek Τιτάν titan, which refers to the race of mythical, pre-Olympian giants.

To be honest, I'm not sure how I've learned so many of these. On more than one occasion I've fallen down an internet rabbit-hole finding increasingly bizarre names for sometimes otherwise innocuous or sometimes utterly entirely absurd creatures. Scientists are much more creative people than they get credit for.

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petculiars · 2 years

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Dinosaur Names You Can Use for a Pet

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Dinosaur Names You Can Use for a Pet

Dinosaur names are very interesting and some of them do really well for some pet types. The lists I’ll be giving you below are of over 100 dinosaur names you can use for your pet, to make it stand out. The rest of the article will also have some tips you can use when picking out the perfect dino name for your pet depending on its character. You will get some ideas of real-life paleontologist-approved dinosaur names, dino-themed names, as well as cute and famous tv dinosaur nicknames. You will basically get a list of every type of dinosaur you might have heard of.

The Best 19 Dinosaur Names for Pets

I’ll first go over the list of the 19 dinosaur names for pets I like the most. You might recognize some of the names as coming from games, movies, or TV shows. There are also some that are simply based on the scientific name that a certain dinosaur type has received.

Arlo

Barney

Bowser

Bronty

Dino

DinoMighty

Dippy

Dorothy

Godzilla

Grimlock

Gronk

Horacio

Iggie

Reptar

Rex

Spike

Steggie

Sue

Yoshi

Some Cool Pet Dinosaur Names

Dinosaurs are very cool, and you can’t deny this. If you think that your pet is so awesome that it really deserves the name of a cool dinosaur, then check out the names from the list below.

You might also like my articles on pet names of the year, names for pairs of pets, or great mustang horse names.

Big Al

Chomp

Claw

Crackers

Dino Lord

Elvis

Fossil

Max

Megalith

Raptor Zord*

Roar

Scar

Snappy

Spike-a-saurus

Stegmutt

Stego Zord*

The King

Titano Zord*

Trike

Zeg

Zippo

Cute Dinosaur Names for Pets

If you have an adorable pet but still think that it might be appropriate to give it a dinosaur name, then go over this list of very cute puns and dino-related nicknames, which are perfect for lovable pets.

Barry

Brontosnorous

Bronty

CompsogNathan

Compy

Cute-a-saurus

Don

Eddie (coming from Edmontosaurus)

Feathers

Fluffasaur

Frill

Gertie

Little Liz

Paris-sauralophus

Rexie

Speedy

Spiny

Sweetiesaur

Tinydon

Toothless

The Real, Scientific Dinosaur Names, for Weirder Pet Owners

Do you have a pet that seems very clever? Is it the type of pet you really have to take seriously? Then you might consider that a proper name for it would be the real, scientific name of a dinosaur. Or if you want to keep things even cooler, just give the pet an English translation of the dino name.

Velociraptor

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Triceratops

Stegosaurus

Spinosaurus

Pterodactyl (Winged Fingers)

Protoceratops

Oviraptor (Egg Thief)

Mamenchisaurus

Maiasaura (Good Mother Lizard)

Iguanadon

Gigantosaurus

Gallimimus (Chicken Mimic)

Diplodocus

Camarasaurus

Brontosaurus (Thunder Lizard)

Brachiosaurus

Baryonyx (Heavy Claw)

Barosaurus

Apatosaurus

Anatotitan

Albertosaurus (Deceptive Lizard)

Dinosaur Names from Classic Kids’ TV

Are you the type of person that doesn’t like formal, serious names? Then let’s shift our attention to the more nostalgic world of Children’s TV, where you can actually find some very cool dinosaurs. Some of them might even revive some old memories of yours. Here is what I could find from three of the most known kid’s TV companies.

From Disney, the very popular classic by Jim Henson, ‘Dinosaurs’:

Charlene

Earl

Ethel

Mr. Lizard

Richfield

Robbie

Sinclair

The Baby

Let’s see some of the dino names from a more up-to-date TV show for kids, the ‘Dinotrux’ robo-dino series.

Click-clack

Dozer

D-structs

Reptool

Revvit

Scraptor

Skya

Ton-ton

Ty

What about the dino names from the animated film series ‘The Land Before Time’?

Cera

Chompy

Duckie

Littlefoot

Longneck

Petrie

Sharptooth

Names from the Jurassic World movie

Are you looking for dino names that sound a little more mature for your pet? Then what about dinosaur names you can get from movies? Or you can also pick a name of a famous director, actor, or even movie character from a famous movie with dinosaurs.

You can find quite a few options in the Jurassic Park/World movie franchise:

Alan

Attenborough

Blue

Bryce

Bumpy

Charlie

Chris

Crichton

Darius

Delta

Echo

Ellie

Hammond

Indominus

Indoraptor

Jeff

Laura

Macy

Malcolm

Owen

Pete

Sam

Spielberg

Tea

Vince

Or you might have a different dinosaur movie you like more. Try to watch it again and remember some of the names of the leading characters. Who knows? Maybe one of them will be perfect for your pet.

Real-Life Dinosaur Celebrities

Some people give their pet the name of a dinosaur straight up. But why not be a little more subtle when picking out a name? The names below are related to real celebrities in the dinosaur world. You will have examples of paleontologists that are behind some very amazing discoveries, but also presenters that made it so that kids love the prehistoric. All of them have their individual places in dinosaur history.

The list also contains the reason behind them becoming famous. Take a look and see if any one of them is appropriate for your pet.

Andy Day He presented the show ‘Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures’ Barnum Brown he discovered the T-Rex dinosaur Benjamin W Hawkins was the one to make the first dinosaur models Elizabeth Philpott Victorian paleontologist Jack Horner he was behind the discovery of the Maiasaurus’ nesting grounds Jack McIntosh one of the leading sauropod experts Joan Wiffen the first individual that found dinosaurs in New Zealand Karen Chin studied the first fossilized T-Rex dung Lawrence Lambe Canada’s first dino finds Luis Alvarez behind the meteorite theory of dinosaur mass extinction Mary Anning a Victorian expert in fossils Nigel Marven he was the presenter of the ‘Prehistoric Park’ Othniel Marsh named Triceratops and Stegosaurus Patricia Vicker-Rich one of the leading Australian paleontologists Richard Owen was the one that invented the name ‘dinosaur’ Roy C Andrews he was behind the discovery of the Velociraptor Ruth Mason he discovered thousands of fossils Stephen Fry He narrated the ‘March of the Dinosaurs’ Sue Hendrickson he found a T-Rex skeleton in South Dakota William Buckland he was behind the discovery of Megalosaurus William Parker Foulke he was the one to discover the first American dinosaur skeleton Zhao Xijin he named 17 dinosaur families and species

Finding The Best Dinosaur Name

When picking the best dinosaur pet name you can pick from a very wide range of different sources. From celebrity Victorian fossil searchers to names that reflect the looks of the dinosaurs, from real-life dino bones to fictional or cartoon dinosaurs, the possibilities are endless.

I hope the lists above will give you some ideas for great names for your pet. Don’t forget to go for one that is related to dinosaurs, while still reflecting the personality and looks of your pet, at least to some degree.

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amorousdino · 4 years

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The top is a sketch of the basic composition and the bottom two are the fleshed out poses of the characters. #edmontosaurus #hadrosaur #anatotitan #tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurusrex #tyrannosaurid #tyrannosaur #dinosaur #dinosaurart #paleoart #paleontology #paleobiology #art #traditionalart #drawing #sketch #pencildrawing #doodle #portrait #animalportrait #animals #animalart #anatomy #animalanatomy #wildlife #photoshop #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #naturalhistoryart https://www.instagram.com/p/CAADbFulqI7/?igshid=16vbmh90e6tyr

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dinodorks · 5 years

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#Anatotitan #Dinosaur #Cretaceous #Mesozoic #Prehistoric #Extinct #Skeletons #AMNH #Museum #American Museum of Natural History

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comixqueen · 6 years

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Finally posting this here; one of the finished pieces from my museum internship! This will debut at SVP this week on a poster about hadrosaur beaks! And what weird, weird beaks they had!

#science illustration #paleoart #palaeoart #edmontosaurus #edmontosaurus annectens #anatotitan #anatosaurus #art

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ornithologyorthodoxy · 7 years

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So my time at the Carter County Museum came to an end and I could not be happier with what a great experience it was! I finally got to see what being a paleoartist was like as well as getting up every day to go into the studio and paint every day. Thank you to all of my followers and your encouragement along the way!

#paleoart #paleontology #carter county museum #dinosaurs #mammoth #pterosaur #tyrannosaurus #anatotitan #triceratops #quetzalcoatlus #deinonychus #mosasaurus #pachycephalosaurus #ankylosaurus #oil painting #art #painting #scientific illustration #science

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necrothezma · 4 years

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My dad brought me an early birthday present, which is great and I love it, however

The dinosaurs are horribly inaccurate, not to my surprise since it's so hard to find accurate things these days, but

The spinosaurus????? This is literally the weirdest and most far off spinosaurus interpretation I've literally ever seen, it doesn't even look like a spino it looks more like a ouranosaurus...

#also the pterodon. 'flying dinosaur' AUGH #the pronunciations they put near a lot of the dinosaurs are strange too??? parasaurolophus?? ol us phus?? its low fus #ALSO anatotitan isnt a dinosaur anymore I believe #it was removed and now its just an edmontosaurus I think #I was reading about it the other day but I forgot the full details

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doorbloggr · 2 years

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Tuesday 7/12/21 - Where are all the medium sized Theropods?

"The Horrors of Thieving", Allosaurus, Ornitholestes; FredtheDinosaurman (deviantart)

Ecosystems these days are made up of animals and plants of varying sizes and niches. Niche partitioning is a term used to describe how different roles in an ecosystem are taken up by different species. Carnivores for example, can be suited to a variety of roles, even within the same biological family.

Think of North American canines for example. Red Foxes are a smaller predator, hunting rodents, small birds etc. Then there's Coyotes who hunt those smaller prey too, but also hunt larger animals like beavers, and porcupines, and even pack hunt for animals like deer. Then there's Wolves, which may opportunistically scavenge, but are specialised in larger prey as a pack, like bison. Just like prey, predators can inhabit a small size, medium size, or large size niche. But this divide was long-thought to be seemingly absent in dinosaurs.

Red Fox (smallest), Coyote (middle), Grey Wolf (largest), National Parks Service

Ok so when you think of the size of a meat-eating dinosaur, you either think of a large apex predator like Tyrannosaurus or a smaller agile hunter like a Velociraptor. Late Mesozoic Theropods are consistently either huge, or man sized, and palaeontologists were puzzled as to why there were so few species in the middle. There were small, medium, and large prey animals in the age of reptiles, so why was there no medium sized theropods to fill in that niche?

Recently, there has been a revision on how we understand the growth and diet of predatory dinosaurs that may help to understand a solution to this question. Modern pack hunting animals share their kills with their family groups. An African Wild Dog puppy is not large or powerful enough to kill an Antelope, but a large portion of their diet will be Antelope because their parents will share the kill.

Deinonychus catch, Raph Herrera Lomotan

Studies of coprolites (fossil poo) and fossilised stomach remains in young dinosaurs have revealed it may have worked out differently. Young Deinonychus have been found to have different nutrients in their diets to adults, and palaeontolgists think this is because they hunted different animals (Frederick et al 2020). Adult Deinonychus had the power and skill to kill dinosaurs larger than themselves, but juveniles could not, so would've pursued smaller reptiles, mammals, or even invertebrates. Adults didn't share their kills with their young, so they had to find their own food.

This ontogenetic (relating to aging and development) variation in niches has also been theorised in larger theropods, to the point where some smaller to medium-sized dinosaur species have been identified as potential juveniles of larger species. Nanotyrannus was a species of smaller Tyrannosaur that has a very different body shape compared to the largest of the group. It had been described as about as tall as an adult human, with long slender legs, and had an extensive covering of feathers. But new studies have discussed the possibilities of Nanotyrannus being the juvenile form of Tyrannosaurus rex itself.

Nanotyrannus stalking Anatotitan, Doug Henderson

If this was the case, as many palaeontologists are on board with, it means that young Tyrannosauruses were specialised for a very different lifestyle than their adult counterparts. The juveniles were pursuit predators, running after smaller prey items, whereas the adults would take on larger dinosaurs, and did not have nearly enough leg strength to run for longer distances.

Juvenile/Adult Tyrannosaurus, Gabriel Ugueto

Scipionyx, the first dinosaur species discovered from Italy, has also theorised to be the juvenile of a larger species. It was initially classified as part of the group Compsagnathidae, but palaeontologists have begun to question whether the group itself is natural, or if scientists have just grouped together unrelated species of the same body shape and size. Given the shape and plasticity of its bones, the known specimen of Scipionyx is thought to be a hatchling, but a hatchling of what? Italian Paleaontologist Andre Cau theorised (Cau 2021 (its in Italian)) that Scipionyx was a juvenile Carcharadontosaurid, and further, that most of the Compsagnathid group consists of juveniles of large bodied theropods. The "Compsagnathid" body shape could in fact just be the body shape of juvenile Tetanurans (the clade including most theropods).

Scipionyx, Lukas Panzarin

This type of ontogenetic niche partitioning exists today in some reptile groups, particularly in Komodo Dragons, where the juveniles are aboreal insectivores, and the adults hunt mammals many times larger than themselves.

Juvenile Komodo Dragon, Mark Ralston

Dinosaurs were not mammals, and in fact are unlike many other groups alive today, and understanding their biology and behaviour requires looking into many different vertebrate groups. So, to answer the question posed by this post's title? Where are all the medium sized theropods? Its likely they're the bigger ones going through a phase.

Cheers for the read.

#blog #blogpost #dinosaurs #tyrannosaurus #deinonychus #scipionyx #nanotyrannus #palaeontology

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fromthedust · 2 years

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Charles R. Knight (American, 1874-1953)

Though his depictions of the postures of these ancient animals are now dated, Charles R. Knight’s portrayals of prehistoric creatures are fondly remembered as a child looking at the murals behind the skeletons in the museums.

Through his many sculptures, book illustrations and museum murals, Knight influenced the way generations of Americans perceived the ancient world. Born in Brooklyn and educated at the Polytechnic Institute, Knight studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Students League before beginning a life-long career in the service of natural history. His mentor in paleontology was Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), Curator of Paleontology at The Academy of Natural Sciences, who helped Knight envision prehistoric creatures as living organisms with many of the same behaviors as their modern counterparts.

Brontosaurus (now known as Apatasaurus) - 1897

Leaping Laelaps - 1897

Agathaumus - 1897

Tylosaurus - 1899

Anatotitan - 1905

Elasmosaurus - 1909

Stegosaurus - 1912

Tyrannosaurus confronts a family of Triceratops - 1919

Nesting Protoceratops - 1925

T. Rex Confronts Triceratops - 1927

Charles R. Knight working on Stegosaurus in 1899

#art by others #other's artwork #painting #sculpture #Charles R. Knight #dinosaurs #marine reptiles #prehistoric

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roosaurusrin · 2 years

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Carter County Museum Fossils.

From the top: Anatotitan, juvenile T. rex skulls, feeding marks from T. rex on a Triceratops jaw, the cast of the first pterosaur specimen in Germany, Elasmosaurus skull, Quetzalcoatalus, and the Wyrex Tyrannosaurus rex.

#carter county museum #paleontology #ekalaka montana #dinosaurs #hadrosaur #tyrannosaurus rex #t. rex #triceratops #pterosaurs #elasmosaurus #quetzalcoatalus #2021 ekalaka shindig

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thegreatallanquatermain · 3 years

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Dinosaurs

Looking back 65 millions years ago, but not necessarily to this day

Lived giant primordial lizards, imagine how many tons they must weigh

The terrible lizards that bring out childish glee

The mighty dinosaurs, rulers of the land and sea

We know of so many, their names fill us with wonder and dread

Like the mighty velociraptor, whose claws could rend and shred

Wait, no, that can’t be right, the velociraptor was very puny

To be trembling at the thought of them would be a little loony

But what about the tyrant king, the Tyrannosaurus rex

Well, he’d probably be covered in feathers, an idea that would perplex

What about the brontosaurus, the one with the long neck

Actually, they stuck a head on the wrong dinosaur and didn’t go back to check

What about the stegosaurs and ankylosaurus with armour all around

Well actually there aren’t many, because complete skeletons are never found

And these are just the dinosaurs you know

Have you ever stopped in a museum seen all the weird ones on show

Have you ever heard of the Anatotitan, whose name means giant duck

Or the gasosuraus whose name bring thoughts of flatulence, what terrible luck

What about the saltopus, minmi, shanag, or yinlong

What even is a Micropachycephalosaurus, surely a better name would come along

Or the one named by the irked researcher who named a dinosaur irritator to be prudent

Huh, you know that actually sounds like my average student

Dinosaurus are fantastic, and magical, and forever a wonder

Studying them is still a science, and will often come with a blunder

But I think it is still important to appreciate what they are

Parts of history, creation, imagination, and the bizarre

#dinosaurs #poetry

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amnhnyc · 4 years

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Happy Birthday, Barnum Brown! Known as one of the greatest dinosaur collectors of all time, Barnum Brown helped the Museum establish its world-class fossil collection. Brown’s extraordinary fossil-hunting career—which took him from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites and to the halls of the Museum—included the discovery of the first skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex. Image no. 338624, AMNH Library, Barnum Brown with Anatotitan specimen collected by Edward Drinker Cope, American Museum of Natural History [1935-1950] (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8e3N2VH-_Y/?igshid=f04d236id5zu

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majingojira · 4 years

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Update Time: Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals In Mass Media

A while back, I did a post on my findings for Dinosaur Representation in Film. Thanks to a project I’ve been aiding with, I’ve been able to greatly expand my media intact. From what I could watch (excluding the Simpsons, because how the hell am I gonna ID prehistoric life that cartoony), here are the top 10 prehistoric animals of various groups I’ve been able to log until about March of this year. Youtube always puts out something new, so I had to cut off some things. This covers Movies, TV Shows, Educational Shorts, Direct to Video productions, Youtube Channels, and Youtube videos (for not largely dedicated prehistoric channels/playlists). This involved a lot of IDing I had to do myself. So when a documentary showed a mural or sculpture, I did my best to either deduce or track down the thing so I could ID things properly. Crystal Palace and Age of Reptiles showed up a LOT. I even counted background skeletons for various museum shots when I could. Because I was going ALL IN on this. And things that used 60% stock footage were not counted to avoid repetition. That said, footage from The Lost World (1925) got used a LOT, like, into the 21st century even! As a final side note: SCREW Trilobites! They’re almost never IDed, and there are 40,000 of them! Here is what I found out:

Top 15 Dinosaurs:

Tyrannosaurus - 306

“Raptor” (Velociraptor (90), Deinonychus (91), and Dakotaraptor/Giant Movie Villain Raptor (56) combined) - 237

Triceratops - 223

Apatosaurus ((121) and Brontosaurus(99)) - 220

Stegosaurus - 181

Allosaurus - 164

Basic Ornithomimidae (Struthiomimus (48), Ornithomimus (42), Gallimimus (30), Dromiceiomimus (8), Pelicanimimus (5), Archaeornithomimus (1) Combined) - 134

Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus/Anatotitan - 124

Brachiosaurus - 121

Parasaurolophus - 121

Ankylosaurus - 97

Diplodicus/Seismosaurus - 93

Iguanodon - 82

Pachycephalosaurus ((56), Stygimoloch (15), Dracorex (8), and Alaskacephale (1) combined) - 80

Coelophysis - 73

Top 10 Birds/Stem Birds/Avilalans

Archaeopteryx - 84

Hesperornis - 26

Giant Moa - 23

Titanis walleri - 22

Ichthyornis (and related) - 21

Gastornis - 20

Phorurhacos - 18

Confuciusornis - 18

Teratornis - 17

Haast’s Eagle - 15

Top 10 Non-Avian Line Archosaurs

Crocodiles, Alligators, Caiman (Lumped Together) - 32

Postosuchus - 31

Sarcosuchus - 26

Desmatosuchus - 25

Deinoschus - 22

Smilosuchus - 17

Rutiodon - 17

Erythrosuchus - 17

Teleosaurus - 15

Tanystropheus - 15

Top 15 Prehistoric Mammals

Woolly Mammoth - 99

Smilodon - 83

Neanderthals - 73

“Cave Man (Cro-Magnon) - 64

Australopithecus - 59

Columbian Mammoth - 41

Equus ferrus (wild horse/tarpan) - 37

Mastodon - 37

Megalonyx - 37

Homo erectus - 36

Woolly Rhino - 36

Glyptodon - 33

Megatheirum - 32

Dire Wolf - 31

Gigantopithecus (including Kong and knockoffs of Kong) - 31

Top 10 Synapsids

Dimetrodon - 81

Edaphosaurus - 30

Inostrancevia/Giant Gorgonopsids - 28

Gorgonops - 25

Diictodon - 23

Placerias - 22

Lystrosaurus - 21

Moschops - 16

Lisowicia - 15

Tie: Estemmenosuchus, Secodontosaurus, Sphenacodon - 14

Top 10 Ancient Lepisosaurs

Mosasaurus - 66

Megalania - 30 (I lumped many a Slurpasaurus in here)

Tylosaurus - 30

Titanoboa - 17

Prognathodon - 14

Gigantophis - 9

Plioplatecarpus - 9

Platecarpus - 8

Dallasaurus - 7

Tetrapodphis - 7

Regular Iguana’s come in at #11.

Top 15 Pterosaurs

Pteranodon - 153

Quetzalcoatlus - 87

Rhamphorhynchus - 55

Pterodactylus - 45

Dimorphodon - 38

Ornithocheirus - 25

Geosternbergia (was once considered a species of Pteranodon, but they are easy enough to distinguish) - 24

Anuragnathus - 24

Hatzegopteryx - 22

Nyctosaurus - 16

Eudimorphodon also has a 16, but I flipped a coin for this list.

Top 10 Ichthyosaurs

Ichthyosaurus - 37

Ophthalmosaurus - 26

Temnodontosaurus - 19

Sonisaurus - 15

Mixosaurus - 13

Shastasaurus - 10

Cymbospondylus - 9

Eurhinosaurus - 7

Stenopterygius - 7

Cartorhynchus - 7

Top 10 Other Aquatic Reptiles

Elasmosaurus - 64

Plesiosaurus - 47

Nothosaurus/”Paleosaurus” - 24

Pliosaurus - 19

Kronosaurus - 18

Liopleurodon - 16

Placodus - 12

Dolichorhynchops - 10

Cryptoclidus - 8

Placochelys - 7

Top 5 Turtles

Archelon - 21

Megalocheluys atlas/Giant Tortoises - 11

Proganocheys - 10

Odontochelys - 7

Carbonemys - 6

Top 5 Primitive Reptiles

Scutosaurus - 26

Hylomnus - 21

Drepanosaurus - 14

Mesosaurus - 10

Sharovipteryx - 9

Top ~10 Prehistoric Amphibians

Eryops - 38

Ichthyostega - 32

Tiktaalik - 23

Mastodonsaurus - 19

Koolasuchus - 16

Seymouria - 16

Metoposaurus - 15

Prionosuchus - 14

Platyhystrix - 14

Diplocaulus - 14

Acanthostega - 14

Crassigyrinus is just short of being in the grouping. Top 15 Fish and Sharks

Coelacanths (modern (23), Mawsonia (16), Coelacanthus (7), Rebellatrix (5), and Axelrodichthys (2)) - 53

Dunkleosteus - 32

Megalodon - 31

Lungfish (combined modern species and Necroceratodus) - 28

Xiphactinus - 26

Eusthenopteron - 26

Helicoprion - 24

Bothriolepis - 22

Onchopristis - 17

Orthacanthus - 17

Cretoxyrhina - 16

Hybodus - 16

Cheirolepis - 16

Cepjhalaspis - 15

Arandaspis - 14

Top 10 Arthropods & related.

Meganeura/Meganeuropsis - 59

Arthropleura - 27

Megalograptus - 26

Pterygotus - 24

Horeshoe Crab - 19

“Giant Spiders” - 18

Eurypterus - 18

Marella/Marellamorpha - 16

Pulmonoscorpius (Giant scorpion) - 14

Aysheaia - 12

Top 10 Trilobites

Generic Unnamed/Unidentified Trilobites - 38

Phacops - 24

REdlichia - 23

Isotelus rex - 20

Elrathia - 14

Dicranurus - 8

Asaphus - 8

Terataspis - 7

Olenoides - 7

Paradoxides - 7

If you don’t count the generic one, then the last slot is a tie for Harpes and Oryctocephalus (at 5 appearances each).

Top 10 Mollusks

Ammonite (Generic) (Identifying the various species of Ammonite by sight is as hard as the Trilobites) - 54

Cameroceras - 22

Belemnites - 20

Orthoceras - 16

Wiwazia 16

Nautilus - 15

Parapuzosia - 10

Clam - 10

Inoceramus - 9

Tusoteuthis/Giant Squid - 6

Top 9 Super-Primitive Basal Animals

Charnia - 20

Kimberella - 10

Dinomischus - 9

Amiskwia - 5

Ernietta - 5

Funisia - 5

Coronacollina - 4

Swartountia - 4

Cyclomedusa - 4

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