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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 (256,150 Views)
Supersaur
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Diabloceratops

To be honest I have no idea what a Tiyanulong is (except its a feathered hetrodontosaur) Which I gathered from you. I didnt know to be honest
Also why are we calling shoebills B.rexes?
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Their binomial name is Balaeniceps rex, and in the same way we shorten Tyrannosaurus rex to T. rex, it becomes B. rex.
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Supersaur
May 28 2016, 03:34 AM
To be honest I have no idea what a Tiyanulong is (except its a feathered hetrodontosaur) Which I gathered from you. I didnt know to be honest
Here for more information:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianyulong

It's an awesome dinosaur that definitely needs more love.
Edited by Yi Qi, May 28 2016, 03:43 AM.
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Supersaur
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Diabloceratops

Thanks both of you for the info! :yes: :five:

Edit: Thanks for finding my new favourite ornithopod
Edited by Supersaur, May 28 2016, 03:58 AM.
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The fact that this site thinks that human evolution was A: almost instantaneous apparently and B: Thinks that learning about our ancestors not being the top of the food chain is new information

http://boredomtherapy.com/dinofelis-humans/?llid=wbPP&as=517LQD&shr=9nl0&pas=113
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Supersaur
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Reading that, they made the point that nowadays dinofelis was the only thing that humans where scared of. Im pretty sure that other creatures around the same time where also predators that terrified humans. Like bears!
Also they kind of make it look like teeth at the front that are larger means deadly hunter! Example Tiyanulong (which know Yi Qi has made me fall in love with :yes: ) had large teeth used for chewing plants. But this is my opinion and I could be wrong.
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I'd never heard that about the photic zone being deeper in the interior seaway. I stand corrected.

Having seen dolphin fish hunting (in an enclosed area) they become a lot more visible the deeper they go, hence why I assumed a much larger animal would have difficulty using the same method.
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stargatedalek
May 28 2016, 12:34 PM
I'd never heard that about the photic zone being deeper in the interior seaway. I stand corrected.

Essentially, sunlight reaches about 200-300m deep in the ocean, when your ocean isn't much deeper than 700m that is a lot, heck that is easily more than half of the water column, essentially making the photic zone the largest zone on the seaway.

Moving on for that, it annoys me that people view the triassic as uninteresting and boring when so many interesting life forms were appearing then.
Edited by Yi Qi, May 28 2016, 05:14 PM.
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^ I agree, the Chinle Formation alone has one of the craziest variety in fauna I can remember.
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^I guess because it doesn't have many dinosaurs in it and dinosaurs are what make most people get into paleontology anyway.
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Mathius Tyra
May 28 2016, 01:38 PM
^I guess because it doesn't have many dinosaurs in it and dinosaurs are what make most people get into paleontology anyway.
But Dinosaurs are only a small part of the diverse animal fauna that inhabited the world in the forlorn past, there are manygroups of creatures throughout the history of the earth that were just as fascinating as dinosaurs can get. They just don't get enough attention and this annoys me.
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People who don't realize that our present understanding of dinosaurs is simply the current consensus rather than pure fact and as such think they can bash old reconstructions for being "wrong", despite the fact that our reconstructions are probably partially wrong as well.
Edited by CyborgIguana, May 28 2016, 02:07 PM.
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CryborgIguana you are actually correct in my opinion. As far as we know meglasaurs could have feathers yet we dont know and what we have know is mostly just a guess. Because we cant see the extinct animals (unless recently extinct then there is a chance) Basically this isnt like biology where we can go and observe the animals all we can do is guess. :cello:
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Yi Qi
May 28 2016, 01:28 PM
Moving on for that, it annoys me that people view the triassic as uninteresting and boring when so many interesting life firms were appearing then.
Heresy. "Triassic" and "Uninteresting" do not belong in the same sentence. Sharovipteryx, Henodus, Drepanosaurus, Tanystropheus, Sinosaurosphargis, Atopodentatus, Cyamodus, Desmatosuchus, Garjainia, Eudimorphodon, Redondasaurus, and Scleromochlus, among others, all disagree with whoever says that (EDIT: And I didn't even MENTION all the Synapsids.)
Edited by Acinonyx Jubatus, May 28 2016, 09:13 PM.
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Honestly the Triassic is the most fascinating period of the Mesozoic IMO when it comes to bizarre fauna.
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