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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 (256,158 Views)
Mathius Tyra
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PrimevalBrony
Apr 19 2016, 04:04 PM
It annoys me that Siamotyrannus is still reconstructed as a tyrannosaur. I mean it's been a metriacanthosaurid for...14 years?
Totally this! Most people... I mean more then 90% including even some local paleontologists here don't even realize that yet... Or maybe because they just want to ignore it and keep believing that it's the relative of the AWESUM T-WRECK!!!....
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Apr 20 2016, 12:19 PM.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

To be fair, it's known bits aren't exactly compelling for either. Not like if we had a skull with teeth, by any means.

Very easy to overlook it in popular media entirely, let alone the latest data on it.
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Even
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Better a Lazarus taxon-ish metriocanthosaurid than a tyrannosauroid though, speaking in terms of diversity... Thailand should be proud of the lots of remnant Jurassic taxa and interesting newly derived Cretaceous taxa they have in their early Cretaceous strata (compared to Indonesia's almost nothing)
In the subject of SE Asian Mesozoic fossils, Malaysians around here should also be proud of the conical spinosaurid tooth they find, dating back to 70 mya, perhaps the latest spinosaur ever...

@Incinerox: Yep, there's that Kenyan fossil formation with more than just an abelisaur, but an entire ecosystem... An entire ecosystem from late Maastrichtian Africa... Let that sink in...
Edited by Even, Apr 25 2016, 01:52 AM.
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Paleop
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Pencil necked sauropods, nuf said.
Viva la revolution!
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

Paleop
Apr 27 2016, 08:15 AM
Pencil necked sauropods, nuf said.
Viva la revolution!
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To be fair, that Brontosaurus does look like he has pencils growing out of his neck.
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Denomon3144
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Pick a god and pray!

There's strong language, so I put the image in a spoiler.

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Edited by Denomon3144, Apr 27 2016, 03:53 PM.
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Incinerox
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It's bad that I can actually see their point.
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Lelka
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I don't know what they mean, and maybe I don't want to.
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heliosphoros
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Sauce plz
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CyborgIguana
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I do kind of see his point if he's talking about the people who say the term bird should be replaced with dinosaur and the like, it's more-or-less like saying we should abandon the term whale in favour of "cetartiodactyl".
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Incinerox
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CyborgIguana
Apr 28 2016, 10:25 AM
I do kind of see his point if he's talking about the people who say the term bird should be replaced with dinosaur and the like, it's more-or-less like saying we should abandon the term whale in favour of "cetartiodactyl".
It's precisely this.

The poster in question makes it clear that they clearly acknowledge birds' place among the dinosaur family tree, and that dinosaurs were frequently feathers. They are no nay-sayer in that front.

They're pissed because people are insisting that we throw away the word "bird" entirely. Which is about as stupid as throwing away the term "crocodile" and replacing it with "curotarsan".

While we're at it, let's stop calling them curotarsans and dinosaurs entirely.

They're all derived archosaurs from now on, mk.
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Ulquiorra
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Bird, Crocodile, Whale, Dinosaur, they are all generic words that many of us will have known from a young age, and have grown up knowing these animal groups by these names, we just learn new things with age. You can't just expect an average 3 year old child to learn about archosaurs, cetartiodactyl, and the dinosaur family tree over night and expect them to refer to these animal groups by more scientifically accurate names from then on.
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CyborgIguana
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Overly black-and-white thinking in paleontological debates. Example: the long standing "scavenger OR predator" debate for tyrannosaurids. NVM that virtually all modern carnivores do a bit of both, even those that lean towards one or the other.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 30 2016, 03:14 PM.
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Paleodude
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Animals that we have almost no remains but still are featured heavily in public media. Andrewsarchus and Spinosaurus I'm looking at you.
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CyborgIguana
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What? I'm sorry, but that doesn't make much sense to me as a pet peeve.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 30 2016, 03:34 PM.
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