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| Best paleontology fails | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,462 Views) | |
| Furka | Feb 25 2016, 09:59 AM Post #301 |
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I can't understand what's the bottom left one, and that Styracosaurus is just the Disney one repainted. |
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| Paleodude | Feb 25 2016, 10:07 AM Post #302 |
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ex-Krampus
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This might help; https://youtu.be/kFd5f75CN38?list=PLaCDmykyjVw_B983AQ2iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YxwKmx0fL._AC_UL320_SR256,320_.jpg |
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| Ulquiorra | Feb 25 2016, 10:08 AM Post #303 |
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Ah, I new I'd seen that styracosaurus design somewhere else before, whoever made these must have been lazy. Unfortunately, along with the brachiosaurus and the parasaurolophus, the bottom left figure wasn't on the shelves, but I'm guessing it is either an iguanodon or edmontosaurus, something along those lines, but the shape of it, still looks similar to the raptor model, so again the designer must have been to lazy to make a completely different model for the raptor. Although I was like, picks up raptor figure and see's toothless beak, "I didn't know iguanodon had raptor claws", looks at belly, 'VELCIRAPTOR' and then I'm like "WTF?"
At least that model has teeth. Edited by Ulquiorra, Feb 26 2016, 12:08 PM.
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| stargatedalek | Feb 25 2016, 02:54 PM Post #304 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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The Styracosaurus is a bootleg of the Schleich model (which itself is based on that Disney movie), and a few of the others also look to be ones that these cheapo companies steal back and forth from each other. |
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Feb 25 2016, 11:15 PM Post #305 |
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I actually had that set when I was younger. They're super old. the one in the bottom left was indeed an Iguanodon. |
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| BossAggron | Feb 26 2016, 02:20 AM Post #306 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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I have a few similar sets and my C1R4 is called Scelidosaurus of all things. |
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| PrimevalBrony | Feb 27 2016, 07:44 AM Post #307 |
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Youtuber. Combat robotics fan
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I once had a bigger version of a beaked scaly quadruped Velociraptor. I always just pretended it was some form of ornithopod that evolved the sickle claw to defend itself. Ah crap. That's brought back memories of me making up dinosaurs/reptiles. My first one was a Triceratops that lacked a nose horn that I called "Ostcleoceratops" *shudder*. Then I used my Carnegie Psittacosaurus as an iguanodontian that I called "Euoplosaurus" because it had powerful kicks and other stuff. "Carnosaurus" was just an ordinary carnosaur (Speaking of, why is there no such thing as "Carnosaurus"?). And then there was the group of reptiles I came up with (that I have forgotten the name of) that were super-predators that lived from Permian all the way up to Eocene. How well I've grown |
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| TheNotFakeDK | Feb 27 2016, 09:57 AM Post #308 |
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200% Authentic
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The name "Carnosaurus" was apparently published mistakenly by Huene in 1929, along with "Coelurosaurus" and "Tyreophorus" when he only meant to describe incertae sedis material. Because "Carnosaurus" and the other two weren't properly described, the three names are now all nomen nudum and are pretty much lost. In a way, I suppose this sort of thing can count as a palaeontology failure, so while we're on the topic, the name "Dinosaurus" has been assigned to a.) a junior synonym of the dinocephalian Brithropus b.) a femur now assigned to the dinocephalian Phreatosuchus and c.) as a nomen nudum name of an undescribed prosauropod. And perhaps in my favourite instance of this, the name "Pterosaurus" was used to describe the crested chameleon. The name "Pterosaurus" has been lost because someone used it to describe an extant chameleon. Fab. You wouldn't happen to mean this one would you?:
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| PrimevalBrony | Feb 27 2016, 10:10 AM Post #309 |
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Youtuber. Combat robotics fan
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That's the exact toy. Boy that brings back memories. And that kinda sucks that "Carnosaurus" and "Coelurosaurus" are nomen nudum. Also, unsure if this is a palaeofail, but calling that Milk River ceratopsian named last year Wendiceratops is just a dumb name. What is much better is the name I was wanting it to be: Ouranoceratops wendii |
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| stargatedalek | Feb 27 2016, 10:33 AM Post #310 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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Honestly I'm glad those will never be used, especially Pterosaurus. Naming a genus after the larger group it's in is not only cheesy but confusing. |
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| PrimevalBrony | Feb 27 2016, 10:54 AM Post #311 |
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Youtuber. Combat robotics fan
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I actually like the name "Coelurosaurus". The others.....................yeah no thanks |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Feb 27 2016, 12:30 PM Post #312 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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Normally, it's the other way 'round. They name the group after its most prominent member. Like "Tyrannosauroidea"- that term wasn't coined until well after Tyrannosaurus was named. But yeah, all those names being flushed down the drain because they were already taken, or assigned to an animal with a name, or based on too fragmentary material- that kind of thing gets stuck in my craw quite a lot. |
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| Imperator Furiosa | Mar 3 2016, 01:36 PM Post #313 |
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Chaos Theory
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This poor creature I found at the Field Museum gift store.
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| kepperbob | Mar 3 2016, 03:02 PM Post #314 |
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- Pure Shardana -
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*Why this is a correct accurate representation of an Humposaurus Maximus |
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| CyborgIguana | Mar 3 2016, 06:48 PM Post #315 |
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It looks like a Dimetrodon and a Nodosaurus had a baby that neither are particularly proud of. |
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