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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,425 Views)
Taurotragus
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I'm not good with maniraptorans so I wouldn't know which ones were faster than others. Ok so troodonts.
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Furka
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Jan 28 2015, 05:42 PM
well regardless of how well spino could smell, in that situation I bet the fish would have a stronger sence of smell xD

however, on a serious note, did spino have tarsal scutes?
It's not a matter of scent, the dead fish would have been unedible a short time after.
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Paleop
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I would like to learn more about edmontosaurus since I'm going to draw the creature for my art topic soon so i have a few questions....

-1.did edmonto have a smooth back or one like brachylophosaurus?(I have seen both in edmontosaurus art)
0.what kind of pattern did edmonto have? (pictures appreciated)
1.would brown be an acceptable color? (kind of a stupid question on my part)
2.is E. regalis the largest aside from E. annectens ?
3.is the crest a crest or a waddle?
4.overall how bulky?
5. what did the toes look like?
6.throat pouch or no throat pouch?
7.what kind of posture may this animal have adopted?
8.do you think one would taste good? (sorry, I'm hungry

I also have a few Questions about other extinct animals...
9.would theropods preen ?
10.is it more plausible to draw ceratopsians with spikes or quils?
11.i heard oviraptorids were very intelegent among dinosaurs, would that make them easyer or harder to train?
12.exactly what colors have been found on caudipteryx?
13.are there good youtube series about dinosaurs(aside from dinosaur George and 'your dinosaurs are wrong' (thegeekgroup)I really recommend them by the way :) good shows.)

thanks, in advance
Edited by Paleop, Feb 3 2015, 02:56 PM.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Paleop
Feb 3 2015, 02:54 PM
dinosaur George
If you're talking about Georga Blasing, that's not a good series xD
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Paleop
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Dinosaur George that's the channel's link , is that the same guy you mentioned?
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The guy who hosted Jurassic Fight Club? Yeah, I wouldn't trust that guy AT ALL if I were you. :P

As for your Edmontosaurus-related questions:
0. Impossible to answer, colours are almost never preserved on fossils.
1. Sure, why not?
2. I think they were both about the same size.
3. It's a soft-tissue crest, so closer to a wattle than to the bony crests of lambeosaurines.
4. It would've been pretty bulky (moreso than the skinny-necked reconstructions we tend to see), though we don't know exactly how much.
5. Didn't have them, the front feet of hadrosaurs were just fleshy pads with no visible toes IIRC.
6. Either is fine.
7. Hadrosaurs were likely capable of adopting both quadrupedal and bipedal postures when needed.
8. Sure, if you're a tyrannosaur. xD
9. Mummified remains indicate that Edmontosaurus did indeed have a ridge along its back like that of Brachylophosaurus.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 3 2015, 06:20 PM.
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Paleop
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since edmontosaurus was very bulky could the ridges on its back been submerged n flesh instead of being visible?
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Mathius Tyra
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Nope... Then what's the point of having ridges? :P

The word bulky doesn't mean that the animal get their meat increase in every spots of body. It usually mean more flesh around belly, neck, limbs, tail....


And I thought E. regalis is bigger than E. annectens? With the regalis grows up to 13 metres long while annectens stays around 10....
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Feb 4 2015, 05:08 AM.
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Furka
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IIRC the difference between the two was about snout shape (flatter and wider in E. annectens) and age of the fossils (regalis lived earlier).
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Mathius Tyra
Feb 4 2015, 05:08 AM
And I thought E. regalis is bigger than E. annectens? With the regalis grows up to 13 metres long while annectens stays around 10....
Ya see, we know a LOT about both Edmontosaurus species. An amazing amount in fact. But the problem lies in the fact that it's had such a complicated taxonomic history. Well, actually, only one species has. E. regalis is only known from Horseshoe Canyon and hasn't really had much in terms of taxonomic clutter. But E. annectens was the Hell Creek species that we all know from WWD as Anatotitan. But it was only long after even that when it, along with the following species list were merged into one species of Edmontosaurus (since everything older was regarded as nomen dubium and everything younger was, well, younger):

Trachodon longiceps
Anatosaurus longiceps
Hadrosaurus longiceps
Anatotitan longiceps
Claosaurus annectens
Anatosaurus annectens
Thespesius saskatchewanensis
Anatosaurus saskatchewanensis
Edmontosaurus saskatchewanensis
Anatosaurus copei
Anatotitan copei

Until that point, the only Edmontosaurus remains from Hell Creek that were known to be Edmontosaurus were all sub-adults which were only 8m long, give or take. Meanwhile, we had LOADS of E. regalis remains spanning across its entire growth series, with some individuals pushing the 12m mark. So obviously, in the public eye and for the longest time among paleontologists, E. regalis was viewed as the significantly larger species.

But of course, since the massive merging to form E. annectens, individuals regarded as different species, some of which EXCELLENTLY preserved, but others not so much, have hinted at E. annectens also matching that 12m mark that its older Canadian relatives reached.

So really, the latest studies suggest that both were more or less the same size at about 12m.
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E. regalis is older than E. annectens does that mean E. regalis did not live in the maastrichtian ?

also what would be fairly accurate ZT2/AD biomes for the following?

0.Tyrannosaurus rex
1.Triceratops horridus
2.Ankylosaurus magniventris
3.Styracosaurus
4.Alamosaurus (species that lived in the maastrichtian)
5.Edmontosaurus regalis and annectens
6.Pachycephalosaurus
Thanks for answering my questions :)
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Incinerox
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I believe I posted an answer to a similar question before. Temperate's yer best bet, given Hell Creek was mostly beech forest. Styracosaurus could be the same, but with different foliage composition. Probably leaning more towards tropical. E. regalis could be Temperate, Temperate Rainforest, or even Boreal to some degree.
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Besides Pterorhynchus, do we have any Pterosaur fossils which show patterning?
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Incinerox
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We might have possible fossil melanosomes for some pterosaurs, but nothing as detailed as Pterorhynchus.
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Yutyrannus the second
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Wait, we know Pterorhynchus` colors? Which one did it had?
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