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Liv Full Member Posts: 15,333	Tal's dino blog Feb 9, 2021 14:34:47 GMT Toril likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Feb 9, 2021 14:34:47 GMT Palaeontologists can though

Toril Full Member Posts: 17,267 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Feb 9, 2021 17:56:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Feb 9, 2021 17:56:35 GMT Liv, Sorry, I meant palaeontologists. I still think that they use some poetic licence though.

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Toril Full Member Posts: 17,267 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Feb 9, 2021 21:15:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Feb 9, 2021 21:15:48 GMT I would believe the description of that one because there’s more of it to see.
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Feb 9, 2021 13:46:22 GMT Nellie said:

How can you name a dinosaur on the strength of a couple of teeth?

I wonder about that too, sometimes. How do palaeontologists know they've got a new dino when all they've got to work with is maybe one or two bones? There must be some way of telling that they belong to a new species.

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Today's entry: Zarafasaura

Pronunciation: Zaa-rah-fa-sore-ra
Meaning of name: "Giraffe lizard".
Species: Z. oceanis
Size: Estimated to have measured around 7 metres long. Weight uncertain.
Family: Elasmosauridae.
Diet: Piscivore.
First fossils found: Previously known only from a single, partial skull discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, North Africa, in 2011. Named in the same year by Peggy Vincent, Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Baâdi Bouya, Mbarek Amaghzaz and Saïd Meslouh. Since this first discovery, a more complete specimen has been found.
Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in the warm oceans that once covered what is now Morocco, North Africa.

Zarafasaura chasing fish.

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Here's today's dino: Tanycolagreus

Pronunciation: Tan-e-coe-lag-ree-us
Meaning of name: "Long limb hunter".
Species: T. topwilsoni
Size: Estimated to have measured around 4 metres long, 1.5 metres tall and weighing 120kgs.
Family: Coeluridae.
Diet: Carnivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, almost-complete juvenile skeleton discovered in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming in 1995. Named by Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles and Karen Cloward in 2005.
Lived: 157.3 to 145 million years ago during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages of the Late Jurassic in what is now the western United States.

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"Dino of the Day!": Ratchasimasaurus

Pronunciation: Rat-kas-ee-ma-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Ratchasima lizard", after the province in northeastern Thailand where its fossils were discovered.
Species: R. suranareae
Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils.
Family: Uncertain. Possible Iguanodontid.
Diet: Herbivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a lower jaw discovered in the Khok Kruat Formation of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeastern Thailand (date of discovery uncertain). Named by Masateru Shibata, Pratueng Jintasakul and Yoichi Azuma in 2011.
Lived: 125 to 113 million years ago during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now northeastern Thailand.

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Feb 12, 2021 9:10:07 GMT @taliragreycrest said:

"Dino of the Day!": Ratchasimasaurus

He doesn't look happy, and no wonder with all those seagulls hitching a ride. They know he's a veggie and can't eat them.

I'm surprised they had seagulls during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous, especially in Thailand. thinking2

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"Dino of the Day!": Unenlagia

Pronunciation: U-nen-lag-ee-ah
Meaning of name: "Half bird".
Species: U. comahuensis, U. paynemili
Size: Estimated to have measured between 2 and 3 metres long, 1 metre tall and weighing up to 75kgs.
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Diet: Carnivore
First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered in Neuquén province, western Argentina, in 1996. U. comahuensis named by Fernando Emilio Novas and Pablo Puerta in 1997. U. paynemili named by Jorge Calvo, Juan Porfiri and Alexander Kellner in 2004.
Lived: 93.9 to 86.3 million years ago during the Turonian and Coniacian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Argentina.

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Today's entry: Ilokelesia

Pronunciation: Eye-low-kee-leez-e-ah
Meaning of name: "Flesh lizard".
Species: I. aguadagrandensis
Size: Estimated to have measured between 5 and 6 metres long, 2.5 metres tall and weighing around 840kgs.
Family: Carnotaurinae (a sub-family of Abelisauridae)
Diet: Carnivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton and a fragmentary skull discovered in the Río Limay Formation of Neuquén Province, western Argentina, in 1991. Named by Argentinian palaeontologists, Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado, in 1998.
Lived: 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Argentina.

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