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What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you.
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,282 Views)
CyborgIguana
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I think that theory is pretty much dead now that we know the proportions of the two genera were completely different. :P
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Cheshire Litten
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests

Cool
also how some people think PTEROSAURS ARE DINOSAURS annoys us all right
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Iben
Nov 20 2014, 11:52 AM
What annoys me is that in many new pieces of art depicting Spinosaurus refer to the new paper and draw them in a quadrupedal way. Now it's not that that bothers me, although I'm still on the fence until we get some more detail on the arms. No it's the fact that most of those still show an almost über-shrink-wrapped Dimetrodon-esque sail, while the paper gives a total different description.
even the official reconstructions had a shrink wrapped sail x_x
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DinoBear
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Well, Hatzegopteryx may end up being the same animal as Quetzalcoatlus nothropi. Last I checked, we just have a humerus from Q. nothropi. Quetzalcoatlus sp. (the one we have decent fossils of) was included in the genus simply because it was found in the same time period and location as Q. nothropi, which isn't the best reason for including it.
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CyborgIguana
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I personally think Quetzalcoatlus sp. is just an adolescent Quetzalcoatlus northropi, though that's just my opinion. :)

BTW the idea that the biggest pterosaurs couldn't fly also annoys me.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 20 2014, 10:45 PM.
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Nov 20 2014, 10:31 PM
BTW the idea that the biggest pterosaurs couldn't fly also annoys me.
People who propose that have no knowledge of biomechanics.

Pterosaurs (ESPECIALLY large ones) are built-in aerial catapult launchers , everything in their body screams flight, and their flying was far superior than that of birds.
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CyborgIguana
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^This, thank you Austroraptor!

Ironically, it wasn't Peters who proposed this one either.
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Luca9108
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Master of Dinosaurs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IVn0njkVl74

Read the desription of this video and you know what annoys me.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

I actually hurt myself from cringing too hard.
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Furka
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Big Al again ...

Anyway it annoys me when you try to do some research on the flora of a certain environment, but the descriptions are quite generalized (I get there were conifers, but were they araucarias, redwoods or what ?).
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Furka
Nov 23 2014, 02:08 PM
Big Al again ...

Anyway it annoys me when you try to do some research on the flora of a certain environment, but the descriptions are quite generalized (I get there were conifers, but were they araucarias, redwoods or what ?).
OH GOD, TELL ME ABOUT IT.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH RESEARCH IT TOOK TO FINALISE CC'S FOLIAGE LIST, THEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL THEY WERE ACTUALLY LIKE.

IT TOOK MONTHS.

GOD DAMN.

MONTHS!

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I take it that you're currently having problems with foliage then? I could be of help with that.
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Iben
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!

Incinerox
Nov 23 2014, 02:30 PM
Furka
Nov 23 2014, 02:08 PM
Big Al again ...

Anyway it annoys me when you try to do some research on the flora of a certain environment, but the descriptions are quite generalized (I get there were conifers, but were they araucarias, redwoods or what ?).
OH GOD, TELL ME ABOUT IT.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH RESEARCH IT TOOK TO FINALISE CC'S FOLIAGE LIST, THEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL THEY WERE ACTUALLY LIKE.

IT TOOK MONTHS.

GOD DAMN.

MONTHS!

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I take it that you're currently having problems with foliage then? I could be of help with that.
Join the club mate xD It took me ages to find at least some bits of information on what they looked like, but eventually I just gave up ._.

So yeah, we really need a good source. The Paleo DB map was kinda nice, as it gives specific names of the species, but then again, there's very little info on the looks of the foliage...
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Furka
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It's just some research on the Wessex formation for a small art project of mine, and for the moment I think I got enough plants for a somewhat detailed description of the environment (even tho the local angiosperms remain a mistery to me).
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Cheshire Litten
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests

When the only fossils you find are ammonite and trilobotes
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CyborgIguana
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That sounds pretty ungrateful, any fossil is a treasure IMO.
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