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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 (256,442 Views) | |
| CyborgIguana | Nov 19 2013, 09:26 PM Post #871 |
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I'm annoyed by the fact that the articles reporting this theory always say it's Triceratops that didn't exist instead of Torosaurus. Simply an example of idiots trying to suck in more readers, since Triceratops is the more famous of the two. |
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Nov 19 2013, 09:37 PM Post #872 |
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Toro deserves more respect than the little he has.
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| Captain Phasma | Nov 20 2013, 12:42 AM Post #873 |
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Captain of the First Order and Boba Fett 2.0
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Triceratops is a different species! (In my hopeful opinion.) I I like my Deinonychus, T-rex's, and Dilophosaurus JP style, no matter how inaccurate they are! As much as I want Dilophosaurus to have a frill and spit venom, I have to face facts someday... |
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Nov 20 2013, 12:48 AM Post #874 |
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I honestly don't understand how you could prefer this: ![]() To this: ![]() But to each his own, I suppose. |
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| Similis | Nov 20 2013, 01:54 AM Post #875 |
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As far as I recall, some Torosaurus skulls were identified as a juvenile younger than Trike, though I didn't dig much into the subject as it all appears to be a mess with Horner&co having stated their theory and noone really doing much to debunk it ![]() Tbh the bottom "Torosaurus" skull looks like a nice transitional stage with the frill openings starting to form, but whether or not the actual age of the animals matches with trike's aging process or happened before any trike achieved its currently recognized adult form is beyond my knowledge. |
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Nov 20 2013, 07:07 AM Post #876 |
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.
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Yeah if their are juveniles found all over the area with larger adult ones then you cannot say trike is a younger Torosaurus, besides what animal does flat long frill, to bulky frill, then back to long flat frill it is idiotic no? |
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| Iben | Nov 20 2013, 07:30 AM Post #877 |
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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Actually, I don't quite agree with this. There are various examples of animals that live in the same ecosystem, are similarly adapted and most likely cannot be differentiated from their skeletons. Gazelles for example.
And there are other examples as well, for bigger animals, like antelopes, gnus and zebras. Basically, bigger animals can live in the same area, fit slightly different niches than each other, and won't be in direct competition. I'm not taking a side in the whole Torosaurus/Triceratops debate, but as you can see, although it might not make sense to us, it's a real fact in our world today. |
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| Furka | Nov 20 2013, 07:45 AM Post #878 |
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agree on this. there are many ways for herbivore to avoid competition even if they occupy a similar niche: different activity windows (in some areas where fallow and red deers coexhist they occupy the same pasture at different times of the day), dietary preferences (although they could eat the same things, one species probably prefered some kind of plants over others that are eaten by the other species) and others that i don't remember right now. |
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Nov 20 2013, 08:27 AM Post #879 |
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.
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Yeah does not matter if two herbivores are in the same niche so then you have two herbivores like such as said before, we have two large herbivores in africa called a giraffe and elephant those two eat tree leaves but the taller gets the top canopy and the smaller gets the lower canopy. |
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| keenakeen | Nov 20 2013, 10:42 AM Post #880 |
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The discovery of Stokesosaurus.![]() Even though many people admire more famous tyrannosaurs like T rex, Guanlong, and Dilong, I don't know why many of you not appreciate the Stokesosaurus, although it provides a missing link from the feathered flockies of the Jurassic to the mean, killing machines of the Cretaceous. |
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| Similis | Nov 20 2013, 10:51 AM Post #881 |
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Because it's known from hip bones and there are other genera of Tyrannosauroids we know of being present during Jurassic Stokesosaurus in fact is quite poorly known when it comes to fossil material.
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| Ignacio | Nov 20 2013, 02:36 PM Post #882 |
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Ex Corrupt Staff
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Plus is one of the worst choices BF made when selecting the animals for the game
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| Furka | Nov 20 2013, 02:38 PM Post #883 |
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actually giraffes are specialized browsers of some trees, while elephants eat a wider ranges of plant matter both as browsers and grazers, so their diet overlap less
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| TyrantTR | Nov 20 2013, 05:20 PM Post #884 |
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Actually there has been a refutation paper iirc. There are camps that don't agree with the notion that Torosaurus is an older morph of triceratops. The follow up is still being written and it extensively evaluates these specimens. (including the proposed juvenile torosaurus specimen)
Now find me an example of a large animal that does this. Animals the size of triceratops consume a lot of resources. Not only that triceratops is one of the most common fossils we find in places like hell creek. Which means there was probably a lot of them. Given the morphological features of torosarurus, it was as far as we can discern not distinct in its diet or even dietary habits. Animals like this often compete heavily with each other to the detriment of other species. That is why if torosaurus is a thing, it probably wouldn't have been around long seeing as based on the fossil record triceratops was clearly winning the evolutionary arms race. I never said these sorts of things don't happen, but generally they do not happen for long, because one species simply does it better than the other. |
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| Similis | Nov 20 2013, 05:31 PM Post #885 |
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![]() I'm not feeling too attached to any genus so I'll be happy once it's settled once and for all. All in all, our understanding of these animals is supposed to be developed. |
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Stokesosaurus in fact is quite poorly known when it comes to fossil material.




