The Paleontology Thread
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Well my fellow paleontology enthusiasts I got several new dinosaur species for y'all.
Dzharatitanis kingi, a rebbachisaurid of the Bissekty Formation in Uzbekistan
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/artic ... ne.0246620
Ninjatitan zapatai, the earliest known titanosaur found in the the Bajada Colorada Formation of Argentina
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.ph ... /view/3376
Tamarro insperatus, basal troodontid found in the Tremp Fromation of Spain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83745-5
Dzharatitanis kingi, a rebbachisaurid of the Bissekty Formation in Uzbekistan
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/artic ... ne.0246620
Ninjatitan zapatai, the earliest known titanosaur found in the the Bajada Colorada Formation of Argentina
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.ph ... /view/3376
Tamarro insperatus, basal troodontid found in the Tremp Fromation of Spain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83745-5
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Ahh Argentina. How fitting a place for the earliest known Titanosaur?
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Say hello to the newest addition to the "This looks like it was drawn by a child" club, Aquilolamna milarcae
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /100014976
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Well lads, i'm back.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/ ... -body-size
Megalodon length scaled using novel, accurate method to get a maximum size of 20.6 meters, supporting it as possibly the largest macropredator ever
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Florentino Ameghino and Francisco Moreno did that a century ago when they recovered Mylodon skin from a cave in Chilean patagonia and native hunters. The latter case prompted Ameginho to speculate the animal was still extant or was extant more recently than we thought.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/ ... -body-size
Megalodon length scaled using novel, accurate method to get a maximum size of 20.6 meters, supporting it as possibly the largest macropredator ever
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https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/NeomylodonLegendZilla wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:30 pm Anyone think it's possible that one day they'll find mummified remains of a ground sloth, or any other extinct native South American creature frozen in a Andean glacier?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_del ... l_Monument
Florentino Ameghino and Francisco Moreno did that a century ago when they recovered Mylodon skin from a cave in Chilean patagonia and native hunters. The latter case prompted Ameginho to speculate the animal was still extant or was extant more recently than we thought.
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A new species of the middle Jurassic wukongopterid Kupengopterus antipollicatus has been described with an insane new feature: to better adapt to it's life in trees, IT HAD OPPOSABLE THUMBS, the oldest example in the current fossil record!
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A recent calculation was done to determine the total T-Rex population during the 2.4 million years it was alive:
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/scien ... 021-04-15/
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/scien ... 021-04-15/
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A mass bone bed of Teratophoneus found in Utah has become the third piece of evidence of tyrannosaurs living in gregarious family groups, on top of existing bone beds of Albertosaurus and Daspletosaurus
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Also, included in the jumbled dinosaur and marine creature bones of the bone bed, is the first ever complete juvenile Deinosuchus skeleton.
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Cool. I always kind of thought that using bone beds like that as evidence for pack behavior in tyrannosaurs was a bit flimsy, but I guess if we just keep finding them, it starts to look less like a series of coincidences and more like a pattern.
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It is a bit flimsy, but we have what appear to be family groups in the bonebeds. There's no way for sure to know if it wasn't just a coincidence but a multi-age group is indicative of a family group. However we can't be sure if T.rex or other giants like it were gregarious.
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Interesting. I've always assumed huge predators like Tyrannosaurs were "lone wolves" of a sort. Idk why I thought this, honestly, but it seemed reasonable.
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It's not like you were alone, heh. That's been their standard portrayal since day one. And in most modern terrestrial ecosystems the largest carnivore (a bear, tiger, crocodile, etc) is solitary, so it's easy to subconsciously assume dinosaurs would be the same.shadowgigan wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 9:33 am Interesting. I've always assumed huge predators like Tyrannosaurs were "lone wolves" of a sort. Idk why I thought this, honestly, but it seemed reasonable.
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From what I can gather, they would be mostly on their own. They would be good parents who had complicated family relationships (raising their kids and hunting alongside them, as well as snapping at each other for hiearchy) and having semi-social mass gatherings for large amounts of food (wasn't the Albertosaurus bonebed not too far from a Centrosaurus/Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed?). Ironically, close to how most of those predators are social with other members of the species.
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Its been theorized that Tyrannosaurs lived in family groups and that the young adults acted like wolves or lionesses being much swifter than the adults. The young would track and chase down prey forcing it into the waiting jaws of the adults.
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Crocodiles have exhibited cooperative hunting, especially in Cuban Crocodiles.JAGzilla wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 11:08 amIt's not like you were alone, heh. That's been their standard portrayal since day one. And in most modern terrestrial ecosystems the largest carnivore (a bear, tiger, crocodile, etc) is solitary, so it's easy to subconsciously assume dinosaurs would be the same.shadowgigan wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 9:33 am Interesting. I've always assumed huge predators like Tyrannosaurs were "lone wolves" of a sort. Idk why I thought this, honestly, but it seemed reasonable.
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Reposting here:
YouTuber Klayton Fiorti had an interview with a paleontologist that specializes in tyrannosaurs and had a discussion with him about how accurate the T. rex is from the movies that lasted over an hour.
Apparently they did a really good job with the rex. The specialist said it’s probably the franchises’ most accurate dinosaur along with carnotaurus. He said they got the design and behavior almost perfect, but were pretty hit or miss with the biomechanics (correct with smell, wrong with speed and eyesight).
So yeah, we have paleontologists acknowledging what the franchise does right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XyKbB73HExE
YouTuber Klayton Fiorti had an interview with a paleontologist that specializes in tyrannosaurs and had a discussion with him about how accurate the T. rex is from the movies that lasted over an hour.
Apparently they did a really good job with the rex. The specialist said it’s probably the franchises’ most accurate dinosaur along with carnotaurus. He said they got the design and behavior almost perfect, but were pretty hit or miss with the biomechanics (correct with smell, wrong with speed and eyesight).
So yeah, we have paleontologists acknowledging what the franchise does right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XyKbB73HExE
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Happy #MorrisonMay!
What's everyone's favorite Morrison Formation animal? Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus, for me. They're both in my top five favorite dinosaurs.
What's everyone's favorite Morrison Formation animal? Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus, for me. They're both in my top five favorite dinosaurs.
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What's the video? I can't see it.
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Yeah, that keeps happening for me. Don't know what the problem is. The video is by E.D.G.E., and is just an announcement/explanation of Morrison Formation Week.
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