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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,694 Views)
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Ignacio
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What i found on wiki about it was this:

In 2001, paleontologist Phil Currie reported skin impressions from the holotype specimen of G. libratus. He originally reported the skin as being smooth and lacking the scales found in other dinosaurs; similar to the secondarily featherless skin found in large modern birds.[8] However, this original interpretation was found to be an exaggeration based on the relatively fine scalation of the Gorgosaurus skin impression (approximately as fine as a Gila monster's).[9] In the Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs Kenneth Carpenter pointed out that traces of skin impressions from the tail of Gorgosaurus showed similar small rounded or hexagonal scales.[10]
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Gorgosaurus lived in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, which was a subtropical bayou environment 75 million years ago IIRC. The notion that it lived in Alaska was probably due to early misidentification of the Nanuqsaurus material. So no, Gorgosaurus wasn't a sub-zero dino like Yutyrannus.
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

gorgosaurus scale impressions do in no way however contradict the cladistic implications of feathers, every place of gorgosaurus we have scale impressions of are exactly the places we would expect to be bare on a feathered animal
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CyborgIguana
Sep 13 2014, 10:52 PM
Gorgosaurus lived in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, which was a subtropical bayou environment 75 million years ago IIRC. The notion that it lived in Alaska was probably due to early misidentification of the Nanuqsaurus material. So no, Gorgosaurus wasn't a sub-zero dino like Yutyrannus.
Yep i realized about my mistake. That is why i scratched my previous post xD

I'm not saying it didn't have feathers. I just think they weren't as feathered as Yutyrannus.
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CyborgIguana
Sep 13 2014, 10:52 PM
Gorgosaurus lived in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, which was a subtropical bayou environment 75 million years ago IIRC. The notion that it lived in Alaska was probably due to early misidentification of the Nanuqsaurus material. So no, Gorgosaurus wasn't a sub-zero dino like Yutyrannus.
Actually it was a colder environment AFAIK.
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Are you sure? Because I've been to Dinosaur Provincial Park, and I'm pretty sure the main visitor centre said that it was a subtropical climate (then again, it also had a skeletal display of a pack of Dromaeosaurus attacking a full-grown Lambeosaurus :P ).
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Ignacio
Sep 13 2014, 10:02 PM
although it looks more like a anteater than a dino
I'd say that's the point :P
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CyborgIguana
Sep 13 2014, 08:48 PM
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I'm loving the Junglefowl colours on this one! For some reason, I don't often see red-faced dinosaur reconstructions, even though it's quite common in birds.
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Fantasia's Rite of Spring segment brought into the current decade. :P
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CyborgIguana
Sep 14 2014, 07:22 AM
Are you sure? Because I've been to Dinosaur Provincial Park, and I'm pretty sure the main visitor centre said that it was a subtropical climate (then again, it also had a skeletal display of a pack of Dromaeosaurus attacking a full-grown Lambeosaurus :P ).
That is what wikipedia says as well :P
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Subtropic indicates today's temperature in 23 degrees 27 minutes - 45 degrees North and South Latitude... This would indicate some snow, at least in its northernmost edges...
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Alberta is a very large place going North - South, so a lot of variance in climate is to be expected
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The Dinosaur Park Formation only covers a small portion of the province though.
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