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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,331 Views)
Incinerox
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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
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And also that irksome therizinosaur astragalus that might or might not be
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Furka
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Wasn't it reconsidered to be a different bone from a Tyrannosaur ?
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Fluffs
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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
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Fluffs
Dec 22 2015, 01:02 PM
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
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
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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
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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 :P
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Furka
Dec 22 2015, 09:57 AM
Wasn't it reconsidered to be a different bone from a Tyrannosaur ?
I think Even was referring to the as yet unattributed to any particular species therizinosaur footprints.
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Aren't those from Prince Creek?
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BossMan, Jake
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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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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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Nah, I'm referring to the astragalus... But in retrospect, since it might be tyrannosaurian in origin...
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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
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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
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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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