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| What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,281 Views) | |
| Yi Qi | Nov 23 2014, 03:32 PM Post #3286 |
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you know, ammonites are awesome, infact people should all give invertebrates some more love. besides not every ammonite fossil is small, infact some were truly enormous Ammonites are more than just mosasaur chowder y'know, they were the single most sucessfull creatures of their time, existing from the dawn of cephalopods in the early paleozoic and only dying off in the KT event, surviving every ASS extinction inbetween. Edited by Yi Qi, Nov 23 2014, 09:48 PM.
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| Cheshire Litten | Nov 23 2014, 03:42 PM Post #3287 |
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests
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I know but the jurassic coast has Opthalmosaurus And Cryptoclidus The main good side is that ammonites can be used to till what time period the animals around it lived EDIT: this is the best ammonite Parapuzosia Edited by Cheshire Litten, Nov 23 2014, 03:44 PM.
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| Incinerox | Nov 23 2014, 08:16 PM Post #3288 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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And this is the brilliance of the ammonite success story, ladies and gentlemen. |
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| BossAggron | Nov 24 2014, 01:40 AM Post #3289 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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I would love to have an Ton of Trilobites, they are probably my favorite invertebrates. I'll probably Trilobite no one wants once i start living on my own as an alternate currency for Artwork. anyways, The Start of Arkansas has stupid laws that are to keep people from taking arrowheads and fossils from property that isn't private. It doesn't stop anyone though. Edited by BossAggron, Nov 24 2014, 01:41 AM.
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| Mathius Tyra | Nov 24 2014, 02:05 AM Post #3290 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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We got no fossil here... They are so rare... ![]() And that's what annoys me... |
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| stargatedalek | Nov 24 2014, 04:33 PM Post #3291 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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we have a fair bit here but they are highly regulated |
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| Slothy Dude | Nov 24 2014, 05:26 PM Post #3292 |
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The Happy Xenarthran.
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You know how the vid by big al says "this clip may be disturbing to some viewers"... It is darn right! |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 24 2014, 05:31 PM Post #3293 |
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People who think that scaly dinosaur reconstructions are always due either to lack of imagination or a refusal to accept scientific change. Not so, sometimes it's just because the fossil record indicates that SOME dinosaurs were indeed mostly scaly! |
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| Yi Qi | Nov 24 2014, 06:09 PM Post #3294 |
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THIS. People who feather ceratosaurs annoy me to the highest degree, to the point of making my blood almost boil. we have THE ENTIRE BODY of carnotaurus showing scaly skin and armoured scutes, i mean good freaking god! |
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| DinoBear | Nov 24 2014, 06:34 PM Post #3295 |
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It's especially infuriating when the Carnotaurus has more feathers than the vast majority of T. rex reconstructions. I am a bit more lenient with ceratosaurs like Limusaurus, though
Edited by DinoBear, Nov 24 2014, 06:35 PM.
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| Incinerox | Nov 24 2014, 07:54 PM Post #3296 |
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I've made that exact same complaint in this topic before. Jeebis, why do people insist on feathering what we KNOW to be not feathered? Also, I hate how there are so many species out there known only from juvenile remains. I also find it extremely annoying that while I'm working on this megaraptor skeletal reconstruction, it seems to be that we have the same bloody pieces from every known megaraptorid. Arms and hands, some back bones, and two bones at the back of the skull, the occasional rib and teeth. You get the rare gem like Aerosteon's mostly intact pelvic girdle or Australovenator's legs and a JUVENILE skull, but if we're talking adult megaraptorids, it's all the same parts. Great for comparisons, terrible if you actually want to complete a composite restoration. Though it's not great for comparisons because there's nothing to compare either. They're all nearly identical in proportions from what I can gather. Which is annoying. Actually no. Megaraptor had bigger thumbs than Australovenator, and Aerosteon had a slightly deeper skull than a juvenile Megaraptor. But that's it. I just want someone just show up next week and go "hey guys, here's a new adult megaraptorid with an intact tail and skull to fill in the same blank spaces every other species leaves blank. Every goddamn time it's the same parts that remain blank. |
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| BossAggron | Nov 24 2014, 10:56 PM Post #3297 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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could we then assume that Megaraptors have a Fragile frame? |
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| Yi Qi | Nov 24 2014, 11:55 PM Post #3298 |
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Anyway, its mostly that sometimes bones just get....lost, i mean we only had the arms of deinocheirus for DECADES. |
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| Cheshire Litten | Nov 26 2014, 06:05 PM Post #3299 |
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How Pterodactyl is in the dictionary but not Pterosaur |
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| TheLastPanthera | Nov 27 2014, 09:16 AM Post #3300 |
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Just call me TLP!
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What annoys me a little bit of paleontology - because in generally I am not a big fan of waiting of something - is to wait for official scientific papers & official scientific description of dinosaurs which were already discovered some years ago (like the australian titanosaurs "Cooper & George" or german "Riesen-Saurier von der B1" - a really big theropod (more than 30feet long) from the cretaceous.But at the same time I can also understand that paleontology is hard work which simply needs some time ... and I definitely prefer good and serious work even if that means that I have to wait!
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- is to wait for official scientific papers & official scientific description of dinosaurs which were already discovered some years ago (like the australian titanosaurs "Cooper & George" or german "Riesen-Saurier von der B1" - a really big theropod (more than 30feet long) from the cretaceous.