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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 (256,168 Views)
CyborgIguana
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That most people I know still think the entire clade of Pterosauria was a single species called "pterodactyl" (and it was, of course, a dinosaur).
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 9 2016, 06:19 PM.
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PrimevalBrony
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Those that still refuse to accept that birds are dinosaurs. Instead they say "They descended from dinosaurs, but they aren't dinosaurs." *facepalm*
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Imperator Furiosa
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Mar 10 2016, 03:07 AM
Those that still refuse to accept that birds are dinosaurs. Instead they say "They descended from dinosaurs, but they aren't dinosaurs." *facepalm*
That's nothing compared to the people who say "lizards/crocodiles are descended from dinosaurs" or "dinosaurs were giant scaly lizards". It's amazing how some people still insist this despite strong evidence to the contrary.
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Denomon3144
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Pick a god and pray!

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CyborgIguana
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Looks like something one might see on a particularly nasty acid trip.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 10 2016, 10:13 PM.
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PrimevalBrony
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How coincidental. I just finished an Iguanodon drawing today
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

''Avatar 2'' - What did you smoke Spielberg ?
Edited by Zoo Tycooner FR, Mar 12 2016, 04:40 PM.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

How is Avatar 2 paleontologically related?
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BossMan, Jake
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Was he even involved in the film?
I think your confusing him with James Cameron
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

I was comparing the Iguanodon , to one of the creatures present in Avatar . But yeah , I admit it was confusing .

@Bossman : Right .
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Imperator Furiosa
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Mar 12 2016, 04:39 PM
''Avatar 2'' - What did you smoke Spielberg ?
Nah, I think it looks more like something you'd see in the Burton adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. It could be a friend of the Dodo.
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One thing that gets on my nerves is when names get used incorrectly. Specifically, Titanosaurus being used instead of titanosaur when referring the new giants like Notocolossus (*cough*ARKandNewsWebsites*cough*). It is a really easy mistake to make, but it is a rather large error.
Edited by DinoBear, Mar 13 2016, 12:57 AM.
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Mar 12 2016, 06:35 PM
I was comparing the Iguanodon , to one of the creatures present in Avatar . But yeah , I admit it was confusing .

@Bossman : Right .
wait what? an Iguanodon in Avatar?
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Mathius Tyra
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He joked that the green "Iguanodon" earlier from The Beeg One's post was likely from some kind of Avatar spin-off...
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Mar 13 2016, 05:59 AM.
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Incinerox
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Anyway, moving on.

You know what I find really annoying?

Paleobotany.

You'd think for something as important as determining the very environment in which all our favourite extinct creatures lived in would be pretty damn important. But because of the way plants fossilised, paleobotany's means of classifying plant species can only be described as archaic.

I made this massive rant about it on ZTV about how they have to give every leaf morphotype, every ovulate organ, every flower, every piece of bark or tree stump its own genus name based entirely on what those individual organs look like. I was researching a Triassic/Liassic plant called Dicroidium, which is only known from leaves which look like small, V-shaped fern fronds. That's literally it. There's like a dozen species of this leaf, and as it turns out, one belongs to a superficially ginkgo like seed-fern known from a fossilised trunk called Jeffersonoxylon, and another ended up belonging to a more tree fern-like plant stem called Rhaexoxylon. One might turn out to be a climber.

It's as well thought out as any ichnogenus, which are equally annoying. Eubrontes, for example, is any large three toed footprint with even slight theropod affinities from the Liassic of North America. This would be fine, except for a lot of its range, we KNOW the track makers to be Dilophosaurus. So why don't they reassign them as Dilophosaurus tracks?
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