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| Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,331 Views) | |
| Incinerox | Dec 21 2015, 05:49 PM Post #2446 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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Oh right. I forgot that the one in Saurian wasn't actually named yet - we do know it was related to Albertonykus though. |
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| Even | Dec 22 2015, 09:45 AM Post #2447 |
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And also that irksome therizinosaur astragalus that might or might not be |
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| Furka | Dec 22 2015, 09:57 AM Post #2448 |
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Wasn't it reconsidered to be a different bone from a Tyrannosaur ? |
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Dec 22 2015, 01:02 PM Post #2449 |
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Pull my finger!
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This also applies to living animals but what does it take to make a new scientific name for animals? Unnamed species tend to be quite common lately |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Dec 22 2015, 01:14 PM Post #2450 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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Well, let's see. You need to have a detailed scientific paper accompanying it, explicitly stating and describing the animal accompanying the name, otherwise the name doesn't belong to anything and just floats around, not really meaning anything. This alone can take anywhere from a few months to several years, depending on the length of the paper and a few other factors. Then you have to get the paper peer-reviewed and published, which can take another couple of years depending on how finicky the peers and publishers are. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 22 2015, 02:07 PM Post #2451 |
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It took over a decade for Anzu to get published, so yeah it can certainly take quite a while. The main Quetzalcoatlus material STILL hasn't been described AFAIK, and it's been around since the '70s. |
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| Jules | Dec 22 2015, 06:59 PM Post #2452 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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Meh, the Utahraptor material probably won't be released before the XXIInd century at least. The name also can't be taken by any species, with junior synonyms included. It frequently happens for an animal to be named only to be renamed later due to the name already being taken by some beetle
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| stargatedalek | Dec 25 2015, 11:58 AM Post #2453 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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I think Even was referring to the as yet unattributed to any particular species therizinosaur footprints. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 25 2015, 12:34 PM Post #2454 |
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Aren't those from Prince Creek? |
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| BossMan, Jake | Dec 25 2015, 02:48 PM Post #2455 |
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Son of God
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I'm 90% sure they are or atleast from Alaska. In the Wessex formation (or Isle of Wight whichever you prefer) the land was mostly swamp but was there any dry land like "open fields" |
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| Furka | Dec 25 2015, 03:30 PM Post #2456 |
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I think there was something like that, IIRC when I made the study for my Wessex thing it turned out there was a difference in flora depending on the ground. Seems like the further away you got from the water, the taller the foliage would become, and there were areas dry enough to "host" pine trees and stuff like that. Will have to check that again tho. |
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| Even | Dec 26 2015, 11:40 AM Post #2457 |
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Nah, I'm referring to the astragalus... But in retrospect, since it might be tyrannosaurian in origin... |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Dec 29 2015, 12:26 PM Post #2458 |
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What is the name of the formation Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus was found in, what are some of the other animals that lived there, and what was the environment like? |
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| BossMan, Jake | Dec 29 2015, 12:57 PM Post #2459 |
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I know the environment was like Central America. A costal rainforest on the edge of an ocean. This video may help to a degree: http://youtu.be/PXByW408Ukg Edited by BossMan, Jake, Dec 30 2015, 02:28 AM.
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| Furka | Dec 30 2015, 06:52 PM Post #2460 |
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Where can I find some infos on the supposed giant Edmontosaurus? Also, was the tail of Proganochelys just a display structure, or could it be used effectively as a weapon ? |
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