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New Sauropod from Italy
Topic Started: Mar 18 2016, 01:37 PM (678 Views)
Yi Qi
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667116300386

And insights on the faunal exchange between Europe and Africa during the cretaceous!
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kepperbob
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Ok First the footprints and now the actual fossil.I just want to know more about this new sauropod.Does it have a name yet?
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Furka
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*wildlife patriotism intensifies*

It's cool to have a new addition to our collection of extinct fauna. Will probably nickname it Italotitan colyseus or something like that while we wait for an official name.
Edited by Furka, Mar 18 2016, 03:52 PM.
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kepperbob
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Italotitan colyseus

Patriotic binominal name is patriotic,I like it!
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Yi Qi
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Furka
Mar 18 2016, 03:52 PM
*wildlife patriotism intensifies*

It's cool to have a new addition to our collection of extinct fauna. Will probably nickname it Italotitan colyseus or something like that while we wait for an official name.
You made me imagine two oiled, armor clad sauropods wresting on an arena while a bunch of patrician and plebeian dinosaurs alike cheer wildly for their favorite competitor.

HELL YES

Now that's a cool mental image.

Anyway, considering the implications about its ancestors comming to Italy from Africa, i believe Hannibalititan barcai to be more suitable, considering the whole invader from Africa theme.

And now i suddenly imagine one of them riding an even bigger sauropod while yelling "HEAR ROMANS NOW AND TREMBLE!!"

xD
Edited by Yi Qi, Mar 18 2016, 11:25 PM.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Can we not do the placenamesaurus/namedaftersomeonesaurus thing?
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Yi Qi
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Incinerox
Mar 19 2016, 04:11 AM
Can we not do the placenamesaurus/namedaftersomeonesaurus thing?
But we already have a Scipio Africanus dinosaur, if we got a Hannibal one we could say every hostile encounter between both (Though in this case admittedly, with a very young/newborn sauropod as "Scipio" here is but a compsognathid)would be a Punic war! hehehehe

History buff mode deactivated.

xD
Edited by Yi Qi, Mar 19 2016, 04:41 PM.
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