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What is your 2018 dinosaur wishlist?
Topic Started: Jan 3 2018, 02:30 PM (1,886 Views)
Acinonyx Jubatus
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So here you can discuss what you'd like to see in terms of palaeontological discoveries this year. Here's some of my most-wanted discoveries:
  • Preserved Sauropod cranial soft tissue. I want to know if I should stop putting moose noses on my Brachiosaurs.
  • Skeletal data to go with the Broome Sandstone trackways. I've heard amazing things about those tracks and want to know more about the critters that made them.
  • Evidence for complex social behaviours in small Ornithischians. I'm specifically thinking of communal nesting or nest construction, but anything would do, really.
  • A true giant Abelisaurid, at least as big as a Carcharodontosaurus.
  • A melanosome colour analysis on that one specimen of Pterorhynchus- you know, the one with the striped crest?
  • a complete or nearly complete postcranial skeleton of a Burnetiid (Seriously, what's up with these guys? All skulls, no body to go with the skulls.) Bonus points if they turn out to be arboreal.
  • Somewhat related to the previous one; a middle or upper Permian konservat-lagerstatten from a terrestrial depositional environment. Preferably one that clears up the issue of furry non-mammalian Therapsids.
  • A truly tiny Ankylosaurian that's less than a meter long at adult size.
  • A giant (1-2 meters long) Anomalocarid from the upper Palaeozoic.
  • More information on Notosuchian facial soft tissues.


So what's your 2018 dinosaur wishlist?
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Furka
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Still hoping for more Marginocephalia reproductive biology data, especially for the larger species.
And perhaps a North American Unenlaginae.
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TostTheKiller
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Well, I'm still hoping for good, valid ornithischian from Madagascar 'cuz you know, there's actually only one possible animal but only material we have are ''teeth" (if they are teeth). Also evidence for feathers on tyrannosaurines. Aaand that's all I want from this year :)
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Six Foot Turkey
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I hope this year we get some good Spinosaurus remains to finally settle the debate of how it walked.
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Any Gondwanan Ornithisician material is good material.
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magpiealamode
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Acinonyx Jubatus
 
I want to know if I should stop putting moose noses on my Brachiosaurs.
OF COURSE YOU SHOULDN'T just don't give them fur please

As for me, well, obviously I want all the information we can get. For starters, the more skin impressions, the better. I'd like some sort of conclusive data about Elasmotherium's horn, though I don't know how that could happen. A frozen machairodont would be a miracle. More plant-eating crocs. More data to answer the question about where to place turtles as well as sauropterygians. And a more complete (full, dare I say) Denisovan skeleton.
Edited by magpiealamode, Jan 4 2018, 12:37 PM.
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magpiealamode
Jan 4 2018, 12:37 PM
Acinonyx Jubatus
 
I want to know if I should stop putting moose noses on my Brachiosaurs.
OF COURSE YOU SHOULDN'T just don't give them fur please

As for me, well, obviously I want all the information we can get. For starters, the more skin impressions, the better. I'd like some sort of conclusive data about Elasmotherium's horn, though I don't know how that could happen. A frozen machairodont would be a miracle. More plant-eating crocs. More data to answer the question about where to place turtles as well as sauropterygians. And a more complete (full, dare I say) Denisovan skeleton.
Haha, don't worry, there's enough Sauropod scale impressions to make it pretty clear they didn't have feathers.

Oo, herbivorous crocs would be nice. And I second the notion about the frozen sabercats.
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Ignacio
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More dinosaur color studies! More soft tissue fossils! Definitive proof of feathers (or lack thereof) in large tyrannosaurids. So basically, same as usual :P
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

A pterosaur chick (or a portion thereof) encased in fossil amber.
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Ignacio
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Or any dinosaur chick encased in amber O.O
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kepperbob
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So

- dinosaur or pterosaur chick in Amber
- mummified macrauchenia, meaby found in a cave
- mummified sivatherium
- more hints or clues or heck a fossil skeleton of the ancestry of Pterosauria


-(I know that is far fetched and a bit retarded but, since there is a rover on mars...fossil proof of life!I know is retarded but still )
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BossMan, Jake
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-More North American Ice Age megafauna found in the northwest (Above La Brea)
-Tyrannosaurid feathers
-Carnivorous Ornithischian
-Megalania Material
-More Antarctic dinosaur fossils
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Incinerox
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> A complete (or nearly complete with cranial data) Deltadromeus.
> Same goes for Megaraptor.
> Cryolophosaurus monograph.
> T. rex integument (feathers, scales, WHATEVER) with melanosomes.
> Yutyrannus colours.
> Thalattoarchon or Platypterygius monograph.
> Resolution to Prognathodon phylogeny.
> More Brontornis.
Edited by Incinerox, Jan 6 2018, 10:09 AM.
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BossAggron
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New ceratopsians are always good in my book.

Didn't have that many in 2017 IIRC
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Incinerox
 
> Thalattoarchon or Platypterygius monograph.

>Doesn't remember what Thalattoarchon is
>Looks it up
>That's a nice mosasaur
>lookagain.jpg
>I meant a nice icthyosaur

Which reminds me, I'd like to see a solid transitional form within the icthyosaur lineage. As well as whatever other transitional forms the earth feels like giving up this year.
Edited by magpiealamode, Jan 7 2018, 03:29 AM.
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